Reading Quotes · Page 105

“Reading is getting lost in a world of your choosing without having to feel the physical pain ~ Me.”

— Musicinto

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

— Erik Larson

“It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.”

— Adele Rose

“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.”

— Swami Prajnanpad

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

— Peggy Lipton

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

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

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

— Adele Rose

“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of…

— Virginia Woolf

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood,…

— Mort Walker

“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers,…

— Tahir Shah

“If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most…

— Joe Hill

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them,…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading…

— Josh Hartnett

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The first time I heard 'Sharknado,' I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I…

— Ann Coulter

“I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You…

— Erica Jong

“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in…

— Henry Seidel Canby

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As…

— Anonymous

My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I…

— Nancy Milford

I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as…

— Brooke Fraser

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

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

— Joe Orton

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

— Max Anders

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

— Joan Walsh Anglund

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

— Michael Stipe

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

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Katherine Rundell

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

— Johnny Cash

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

— Kylene Beers

“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

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

— Mary Wortley Montagu