Reading Quotes · Page 123

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to…

— Conor Oberst

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins”

— Paula V. Hardin

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

— Lin Yutang

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

— Hugo Chavez

Reading bedtime stories as a family activity seems to have been overtaken by other forms of entertainment.

— Bernard Cribbins

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

— Augustine Birrell

My girlfriend is always reading too much into things. Like my love letter to her sister for example.

— Anonymous

I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in…

— Julie Benz

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the…

— John Milton

When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then…

— Jack Lemmon

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The…

— Carolyn Mackler

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look…

— Sandra Cisneros

Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can…

— Anthony Bourdain

I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five…

— James L. Brooks

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,…

— Zadie Smith

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You…

— Amy Tan

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after…

— Gary Oldman

Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do, and have what it takes to…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of…

— T.C. Boyle

“I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT…

— Cammie McGovern

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants…

— Howard Zinn

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's…

— Sara Bareilles

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

— Richard Flanagan

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

— Iris Murdoch

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

— David Karp

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

— Anne Bronte

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).

— Susan Cain

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

— Neil Gaiman

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

— Dr. Seuss

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

— Lindsey Davis

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

— Timothy Morton

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

— Frances Fox Piven

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

“Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.”

— Aneta Cruz