Reading Quotes · Page 137

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

— Marie Clay

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I…

— Jim Parsons

“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.”

— Joscelyn Gleave

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time…

— Maggie Rogers

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

— Orlando Jones

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

— Italo Calvino

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make…

— James Patterson

“Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it…

— Jim Dooley

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip…

— Jim Davis

“We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into…

— Alberto Manguel

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia…

— Alexei Navalny

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I did quite a lot of reading about analysis and psychotherapy to prepare for the role. There are differing views on why…

— Tara Fitzgerald

No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be…

— J.R. Ward

Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them…

— Elizabeth I

“You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in…

— Sándor Márai

Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading…

— Christopher Nolan

When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then…

— Tom Cruise

If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill…

— Harry Mulisch

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in…

— Warren Buffett

“If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You…

— Joseph Gold

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable…

— Nancy Pearl

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

— John Gallagher, Jr

Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another.

— Spencer Matthews

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

— Anonymous

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

— Mark Doty

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

— Freja Beha Erichsen

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

— Alan Dean Foster

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

— Raymond Chandler

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to…

— Jessica Marais

“You can see the size of people’s dreams from their profit and loss calculations”

— S.E. SEVER

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

— Sophie Hannah

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose