Reading Quotes · Page 56

“Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

— Thomas Hardy

“Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.”

— Patricia O'Hara

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

— Rebecca McClanahan

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

— Anonymous

“Life with books makes my world complete.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A good book should rewire your brain”

— Ray Hartley

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

— Jack Vance

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to…

— Jim Shepard

I love reading I know its very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

— Benjamin Disraeli

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

— Robert D. Richardson

“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”

— John McAleer

I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.

— Luke Campbell

“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.”

— C.S. Lewis

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing…

— William J. Clinton

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…

— Alberto Manguel

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and…

— Mannie Fresh

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're…

— Eoin Colfer

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to…

— Kim Basinger

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

Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up…

— Rob Lowe

“She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might…

— Jane Austen

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on…

— Daniel Levitin

“Reading is a tool. If you can't read you won't get very far in life. If you love to read you will…

— Evan Hensley-Reano

“Aurum, argentum, gemmae, purpurea vestis, marmorea domus, cultus ager, pietae tabulae, phaleratus sonipes, caeteraque id genus mutam habent et superficiariam voluptatem: libri…

— Petrarch

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or…

— Laura Miller

An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma &…

— Geena Davis

“She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over…

— Michael Cunningham

“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a…

— Randy Ingermanson

Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

You cannot start reading without being learned.

— Naqi Mirza

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

Reading have got the good factor

— Ray Parlour

“A woman reading is a grave temptation.”

— rebecca lee

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

— Maxim Gorky

“The minority evolves whereas the majority just revolves”

— S.E. SEVER

“The closet encouraged reading.”

— Jonathan Ned Katz

“it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...”

— Jane Austen