Reading Quotes · Page 118

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

— Jay Asher

“There exists in some individuals more than enough talents, expertises, or greatness for more than three people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

— Coco Chanel

“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”

— Neil Armstrong

What your reading is a bunch of lines that may mean something to you even though they shouldn't.

— Kenaan

“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

— Horace

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was…

— Arthur Golden

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the…

— Al Pacino

Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit…

— Jacqueline Emerson

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people…

— Anonymous

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,…

— Roberto Bolano

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now…

— Sloane Crosley

I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also…

— Cakes da killa

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn…

— Adam Weishaupt

“He was drowning in depression and contemplating suicide. One day a friend noticed that his outlook had changed to hopeful serenity. The…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I…

— Robin Hobb

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A…

— C. S. Lewis

The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What's interesting is, there's always a lot of talk to young people about finding their passion, following their passion. But I remember…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending…

— Smith Wigglesworth

Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real…

— Carolyn Custis James

I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a…

— Michael Scott

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

— Martin Luther

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

— Alexander Pope

“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

— Fran Lebowitz

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

— David Foster Wallace

“the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty

I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot.

— Alastair Reynolds

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

— Rob Brezsny

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

— Dale Archer

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to…

— James Bernard Frost

“Author’s note: what is “close reading? The short answer: without context. Before”

— Terry Marselle

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

— John Waters