Reading Quotes · Page 39

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

— Cathleen Schine

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.

— Claire Messud

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

— Frederick Douglass

I keep reading between the lies.

— Goodman Ace

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

— Anonymous

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

I am more or less reading all the time.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“READING OF LITERATURE CAN GIVE LIFE TO THE "LIFE”

— M.Lakshmi Durga

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

— Anonymous

“Your life will be the result of who and what you’ve been reading and the people you know.”

— Rui Zhi Dong

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

— Mark Ruffalo

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

— Mark Doty

All the things people hate about touring, I'm excited for, because I've never done it before. I'm excited to see places I've…

— Phoebe Bridgers

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be…

— Adrian Tomine

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers…

— James A. Secord

There's nothing like meeting a girl at a signing and her telling me that she loves reading now, and she's even writing…

— Anna Todd

“It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time,…

— Kathryn Alesandrini

I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too…

— Amy King

“It's not good...Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the…

— Mark Mills

From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type…

— Adrian Frutiger

I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the…

— Carla Azar

The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl…

— Mara Wilson

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and…

— Charlaine Harris

I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But…

— Ellen Page

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's…

— Amber Heard

The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I…

— Sarah Vowell

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's…

— Jane Campion

I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,…

— Tim Lebbon

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

— Abraham Lincoln

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't descend to the lowest ebb.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

“This is a fun action story and light reading.”

— Steve O'Driscoll

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

— Katherine Center

“Reading creates humbleness and peace”

— DionnaLifeCoach