Reading Quotes · Page 119

“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?”

— Django Wexler

“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.”

— Edith Wharton

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.”

— Gillian Flynn

“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,”

— Wilkie Collins

“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.”

— Mike Carey

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

— Paul Rudnick

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of…

— Anonymous

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want…

— Mark Twain

Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when…

— Dav Pilkey

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored…

— Jamaica Kincaid

In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations…

— Rebecca West

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn…

— Elizabeth Berg

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that…

— Cornel West

You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the…

— David Edelstein

“Book lover n. 1. A person devoted to reading 2. One who would rather stay inside and read than go outside and…

— Dictionary

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of…

— James Gleick

There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony…

— Martin Shaw

That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when…

— Stan Lee

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in…

— Howard S. Becker

Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational…

— Kenneth Keniston

The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And…

— Nancy Werlin

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

— Anne Fletcher

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Love is staring into someone's eyes, and not being able to imagine more”

— S.E. SEVER

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

— Gustave Flaubert

“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”

— Avi Steinberg

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

— Benjamin Franklin

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

— Natalie Dormer

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

You can't start the next chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Nishan Panwar

“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.”

— Harley King

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

— James W. Loewen

“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”

— David Burr Gerrard

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

— Elin Hilderbrand