Reading Quotes · Page 251

“My mother says that reading is thinking,’ Sofia said. ‘Not that we read and then we think, but rather that we think…

— Ricardo Piglia

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of…

— Anne Lamott

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen…

— Bill Gates

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's…

— John Herschel

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know…

— John M. Tyler

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations…

— Sanhita Baruah

I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.

— Keith Barry

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes,…

— Ronnie Montrose

Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“[Acknowledgments] I recommend them all for further reading, but when you're finished, you may have to read several of my books and…

— Christopher Moore

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo…

— Italo Calvino

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe…

— Saul Williams

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in…

— Arthur Smith

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

— Haruki Murakami

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

— Heather Brewer

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I don't live in that world where I'm on social media, I don't got social media. Or I'm reading articles [about my…

— Derrick Rose

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are…

— Sandra Cisneros

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

— Anonymous

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

— Jennifer Aniston

Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after…

— Tom Shippey

Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that…

— Stan Lee

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

— Alek Wek

“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a…

— Alok Mishra

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the…

— Diane Schoemperlen

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

— Eric Thomas

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

— Hiro Murai

I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert,…

— Luanne Rice

Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That…

— Elizabeth Warren

There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health…

— James Patterson

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after…

— Gary Oldman

I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this.…

— Nicholas Stoller

“Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a…

— Idries Shah