Reading Quotes · Page 120

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

— Kate Mosse

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

— Evelyn Underhill

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

— Robin Gibb

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

— Scott A. Becker

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

— Maryanne Wolf

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

— Clive James

Reading faces is a crucial part of children's socialization and helps them learn empathy.

— Miranda Devine

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

— Dr. Seuss

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to…

— Paul Kropp

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I…

— Michael Burry

“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education…

— Jeanette Winterson

If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks…

— Franklin Foer

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on…

— Jaime Murray

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say…

— Clive James

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the…

— Angela Carter

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit…

— Robert B. Laughlin

“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver…

— Haruki Murakami

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure…

— Diane Setterfield

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker'…

— Olly Murs

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more…

— Jay Reatard

There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise…

— Eric Lange

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of…

— Clint Smith

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading…

— John W. Gardner

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

— Bill Watterson

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

— Salman Rushdie

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

— Anonymous

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading…

— Kameron Hurley

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you'll learn the more aces you'll go.

— Dr Seuss

“I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

— Dr. Seuss

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to…

— Annie Dillard

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with…

— Jonathan Hull

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”

— Chris Geiger

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

— Richey Edwards

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

— Richard Allington