Reading Quotes · Page 101

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

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

— Graham Swift

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

— mike b

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

— Maxwell Perkins

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

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

“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

“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with…

— Jane Austen

I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think…

— Donalyn Miller

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person…

— Graham Robb

I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the…

— Chester Brown

“Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because…

— Michael Perry

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an…

— Jonathan Lethem

“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living…

— Marcel Proust

Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them…

— Felix Rohatyn

“Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing,…

— Elizabeth Rusch

I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I…

— Alan Moore

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be…

— Daniel Alarcon

“We test students right after they read something mostly to ensure that they have in fact read it. From this, many have…

— Douglas Wilson

Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged…

— Sophie Blackall

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day…

— Charles Lamb

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

— Groucho Marx

“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

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

— Cyprian

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

— Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,…

— Maya Angelou

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

“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

“Exercise to stay fit and healthy. Read to learn from the finest people. Meditate to experience more peace.”

— Robert Celner

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

“I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like . . . I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a…

— Tim O'Brien