Reading Quotes · Page 82

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

— Grenville Kleiser

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

“Happiness is not to be found in someone, but to be generated with someone”

— S.E. SEVER

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Racism is a primary source of evil designed to destroy good men.

— Bryce Courtenay

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

— Rabindranath Tagore

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

— Guy Davenport

If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear…

— Julie Andrews

I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers…

— Sue Kaufman

Tilda Swinton would be a great person to a reading on because I think she is such an interesting and fascinating person.…

— Tyler Henry

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never…

— Francois Rabelais

Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new…

— Justin Theroux

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting…

— Joanna Scott

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books…

— John Boyne

“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for…

— Jacob Bronowski

With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to…

— Ray Kurzweil

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is…

— Irvine Welsh

There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture…

— Jules Feiffer

“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and…

— Jenny Hubbard

Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no…

— Will Smith

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy…

— Joan Didion

“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.”

— Carla H. Krueger

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

— Laura Bush

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

— Markus Zusak

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

— Hiro Murai

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

— Daniel Craig

“...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.”

— Jane Austen

“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.”

— Harper Lee

“Old bookworms never die, they just go to be with their favorite fictional characters.”

— Random

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Karin Slaughter

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

— Jerry Seinfeld

“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.”

— Marcel Proust

“Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.”

— Rett MacPherson

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

— Lionel Shriver

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

— Heinrich Heine

“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.' 'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….”

— Grace Hitchcock