Reading Quotes · Page 115

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

— Paul Auster

I love reading about ghosts, near-death experiences, astral projection - which is when you leave your body.

— Daisy May Cooper

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

— Seth Godin

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

— Pete McCarthy

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

— Nora Ephron

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.”

— Hilda Van Stockum

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.

— Daniel Negreanu

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have…

— Isabel Allende

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are…

— Samuel Johnson

Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of…

— David A. Bednar

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is…

— Alan Bennett

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Leading: Superlative leaders are fully equipped to deliver in destiny; they locate eternally assigned destines.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the…

— Robert Benchley

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books…

— John Boyne

There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have…

— Mavis Gallant

“One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you…

— Joshua Rothman

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban…

— Elizabeth Bibesco

People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort…

— Joshua Meyrowitz

I have to say that my kids, like every child in America, is completely absorbed with Harry Potter. And so, I have…

— Barack Obama

Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the…

— Albert Serra

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

— Anonymous

“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”

— Harold Bloom

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the…

— Kelly Clarkson

“The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

— Margaret Millar

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

— Robert South

“Books open your eyes. Keep reading, therefore you'll never blind”

— Ema Yohana

Don't close a book you are reading until you read every word that was not written.

— Anonymous

“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page”

— Cornelia Funke

“Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.”

— Warren Buffett

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

— Jonathan Messinger

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

— Scott Snyder

“No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”

— Rachel Caine