Reading Quotes · Page 88

“Reading is your window to the world that no one can close for you.”

— Sara Samarasinghe

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

— Claire Messud

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

— Josh Hutcherson

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

— Thomas Hardy

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

— Robert Smith

I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that…

— Samuel Johnson

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if…

— Cornelia Funke

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots…

— Stephen Dobyns

I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the…

— Charles Dickens

When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of…

— Moshe Kasher

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or…

— Patrick Collison

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand…

— Mary J. Blige

“"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John…

— Barbara O'Neal

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars.…

— Carl Sagan

I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading…

— Michael Connelly

“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing…

— Khaled Hosseini

Having read the source material, I had to have drawn from that. As a fan, I wanted to remain true to that…

— Steven Yeun

When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a…

— Laila Lalami

Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading…

— Cheryl Strayed

“If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still…

— Anonymous

“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

— Graham Swift

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

— Maxwell Perkins

“my ms is getting worse but reading takes me to my quite and safe place!!!!”

— mike b

“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.”

— Alice Walker

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much…

— Irena A. Hoffman

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't really care if people don't like me. The only thing I care about is if they are reading my website.

— Perez Hilton

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

— Cyprian

“Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.”

— Aneta Cruz

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

— Mary Archer

“He's not one for reading, which to me is like saying you're not one for breathing.”

— Kirstin Cronn-Mills

“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.”

— Kellie Elmore

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

— Patrick Rothfuss