Reading Quotes · Page 141

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

— S. I. Hayakawa

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

— Sandra Cisneros

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

— Guy Davenport

“If you think you have the power to change someone, why not start from yourself?”

— Ela Crain

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

— Charles Churchill

I've been reading everything from serious articles about track to Ryan Lochte's single life.

— Michelle Beadle

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

— Felicity Jones

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

— Kevin O'Leary

I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the…

— Geraldine Brooks

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies…

— Gwendoline Christie

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through…

— Madeleine L'Engle

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus…

— Diane Wakoski

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to…

— Sherman Alexie

“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and…

— Arnold Bennett

WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the…

— Maimonides

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and…

— Henry Miller

On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so…

— George Saunders

My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make…

— Kat Duff

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us…

— Ann Patchett

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I…

— Elizabeth Peyton

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading. - 27-66 AD”

— Petronius

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

— Brian Regan

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”

— Peter Davis

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

— Jon Pardi

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

— Brad Henry

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

— Brandon Stanton

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

— Jay Rayner

“Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.”

— Michel de Certeau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

— Alexandra Petri

“If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and…

— Bohumil Hrabal