Reading Quotes · Page 259

“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”

— Anonymous

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…

— Paul Auster

Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

— Christine Lagarde

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni…

— Cornel West

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility;…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and…

— Matthew Battles

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

— Dawn Olivieri

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones…

— Dave Barry

I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that…

— John Lennon

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.

— Cara Buono

I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading…

— Johnny Carson

I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for…

— Nick Hornby

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

— J. K. Rowling

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know…

— Sarah Waters

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to…

— Anonymous

“Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.”

— Mala Naidoo

When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting…

— Diplo

“Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running,…

— Jean Leclercq

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

— Rachel Miner

The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing…

— Alberto Manguel

“Read a book, and broaden your perspective on life.”

— Marcia Carrington

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

— Robert Bringhurst

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

— Edith Roosevelt

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

— Henry Hopper

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me…

— Ethan Zuckerman

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about…

— Ken Burns

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

— Blake Nelson

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

— Rufus Wainwright

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Leiam o que os apaixone, apenas isso os ajudará a suportar a existência.”

— Ernesto Sábato

Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the…

— Michael Jackson

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

— J. K. Rowling

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

— John Green

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

— Robert Littell

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of…

— Lorrie Moore