Reading Quotes · Page 110

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book…

— Marcia Gay Harden

“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.”

— Cynthia Hand

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

— Audrey Hepburn

“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.”

— Franz Kafka

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

— Hortense Calisher

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and…

— Taylor Swift

Zidane has tried to get me to improve. Anticipating, reading the play, putting myself in the defensive balance, I know how to…

— Raphael Varane

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S.…

— Diplo

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to…

— Kevin Wilson

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…

— Rita Dove

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I…

— Carolyn Wells

Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a…

— eL Seed

“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this…

— John Barth

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for…

— Brian Evenson

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was,…

— George Muller

I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White.…

— Louis Sachar

“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a…

— Max Barry

In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the…

— Linda Darling-Hammond

Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"…

— Gregory Maguire

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

— Sturgill Simpson

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

— Bill Sienkiewicz

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

— J. K. Rowling

“The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

— Dav Pilkey

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

— Kawhi Leonard

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

— Sam Amidon

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

— Karin Slaughter

“It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.”

— Stephen Richards

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he…

— Tom Junod

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“There are two types of dreams: the ones that come true and the ones that pass through”

— S.E. SEVER

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

— Rod Stewart

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

— Kamal Haasan