Reading Quotes · Page 57

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to…

— Anonymous

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share…

— Phil Keoghan

When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience…

— Laura Dern

After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by…

— Murray Bookchin

Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as…

— Molly Antopol

“Reading has become schoolwork, not an activity in which students willingly engage outside of school.”

— Donalyn Miller

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about…

— J Mascis

Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the…

— Watchman Nee

I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.

— Salma Hayek

“Reading was a kind of freedom, the only one I could give”

— Sue Monk Kidd

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

— Geri Halliwell

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in…

— Suzanne Somers

Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a…

— Diane Setterfield

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

— John Bosco

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the…

— Jennifer E. Smith

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When…

— Fred Durst

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel…

— Patricia Briggs

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

— Mark Haddon

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away…

— Sabaa Tahir

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

— John Ruskin

I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of…

— Jaume Cabre

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience…

— John Kricfalusi

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I…

— Robert Redford