Reading Quotes · Page 92

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

— Orlando Jones

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

— Italo Calvino

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make…

— James Patterson

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

— Dr. Seuss

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

— Johnny Cash

“Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless”

— Katherine Rundell

“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.”

— Kylene Beers

I like to exercise, going to the gym. Reading a book. Anything quiet, I like. Just being outdoors as much as possible,…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at…

— Helene Hanff

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate…

— Maya Hawke

I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're…

— Eric Kandel

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was…

— Vikram Seth

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He…

— John Green

“The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an…

— Neil Postman

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most…

— Nikita Gill

Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from…

— Moby

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where…

— Vera Nazarian

Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can…

— Elizabeth Debold

“What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, "Oh, yes, I've read that!,"…

— Anonymous

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day…

— Sonam Kapoor

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,…

— Erica Jong

“I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to…

— C. JoyBell C

“Potential literature is what we might call language in the hands of a crafty reader, the way potential music is sound to…

— Daniel Levin Becker

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.

— Amanda Knox

“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.”

— Eric Karpeles

“The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours.”

— Lewis Buzbee

I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.

— Patti Smith

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

— Gene Luen Yang

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

— Felice Picano

I'm quite a calm player. I like to have the ball at my feet, I'm good with the ball and I'm quite…

— Victor Lindelof

“...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Quiet,” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.”

— Adele Rose

I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads.

— Viv Albertine

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

— Theodora Goss