Reading Quotes · Page 42

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

“It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.”

— Elizabeth Savage

“Let a book be your best defense to boredom”

— Carmela Dutra

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,

— Jennifer Egan

“So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Desire to give and not always receive.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Чтение-вот лучшее учение!(Reading is the best doctrine!)”

— Александр Сергеевич Пушкин Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.

— Allison Brennan

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

— Michael Bierut

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…

— Jennifer Egan

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

— Michael Seibel

“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.

— Trevor Rabin

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

— Jim James

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has…

— Elias Hicks

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming…

— Samuel Johnson

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most…

— Sasha Pieterse

If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page…

— Alexis Ohanian

You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day…

— Ravi Zacharias

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my…

— Russell Banks

“If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled…

— Anne Lamott

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far…

— Kunal Nayyar

“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A…

— Cressida Cowell

“To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it…

— Mortimer J. Adler

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to…

— Naomi Wallace

To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not…

— George Spencer-Brown

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in…

— Chuck Klosterman

After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do…

— Nat Hentoff

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a…

— Scott Turow

The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over…

— William Murchison

“If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Reading should be a repeat performance.

— Anonymous

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

— Walter Dean Myers

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

— Annie French Hector

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

— Michelle Malkin

“It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.”

— Blanche E. C. Dugdale

Reading is power. Reading is life.

— Karin Slaughter

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

— John Donne