Reading Quotes · Page 130

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

— Groucho Marx

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

— Mary Archer

“Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.”

— Aneta Cruz

The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and…

— Tessa Jowell

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.…

— Kameron Hurley

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things…

— Victoria Chang

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going…

— Swami Vivekananda

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own…

— Joan Halifax

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit…

— Pamela Druckerman

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,…

— Laura E. Richards

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading…

— Anonymous

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,…

— Timothy Keller

In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case,…

— Anthony DeCurtis

“You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain…

— Denise Gigante

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting…

— Vernon Howard

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become…

— Anonymous

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them.…

— Ray Bradbury

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires,…

— Neil Gaiman

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

— Cyprian

“He's not one for reading, which to me is like saying you're not one for breathing.”

— Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

— Robert Smith

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

— Anonymous

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much…

— Irena A. Hoffman

“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.”

— Alice Walker

“my ms is getting worse but reading takes me to my quite and safe place!!!!”

— mike b

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times...

— Maxwell Perkins

“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.”

— Graham Swift

I don't really care if people don't like me. The only thing I care about is if they are reading my website.

— Perez Hilton

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Francois Mauriac

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

— Sterling W Sill

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

— James Earl Jones

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita