Reading Quotes · Page 91

“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.”

— Jessica E. Larsen

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

— T. S. Eliot

“I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.”

— Mattia Caldara

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

— Jami Attenberg

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

— Mark Ruffalo

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he…

— Henry David Thoreau

I fell into politics by accident. It was not something I planned. It just happened because I'd done so much reading and…

— Ernie Chambers

The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people - quite often the first reading materials given to people in…

— Michael Rosen

“A lot of people assume you can think better with a slow diet of books, but that will not be the case…

— Tony Reinke

Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I like to get off my phone because when I sit with my phone, I don't feel creative cos I'm just sitting…

— Nina Nesbitt

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would…

— James Lee Burke

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You…

— John Green

I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page…

— Neil Gaiman

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great…

— Christopher Morley

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper…

— John Steinbeck

“Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else…

— Zadie Smith

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But…

— Robert Cormier

Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense,…

— Noam Chomsky

“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had…

— Sofia Samatar

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

— Anonymous

“Your life will be the result of who and what you’ve been reading and the people you know.”

— Rui Zhi Dong

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

— John Gallagher, Jr

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another.

— Spencer Matthews

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

— Mark Doty

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

— Freja Beha Erichsen

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I…

— Jim Parsons

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

— Marie Clay

“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.”

— Joscelyn Gleave

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time…

— Maggie Rogers