Reading Quotes · Page 145

“To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.”

— Ray Bradbury

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road…

— Anne Frank

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

— Neal Boortz

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

— Melanie Lynskey

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

— Claire Danes

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a…

— Joan Collins

“Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.”

— David Rose

“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it…

— Patrick O'Brian

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script,…

— Paul Mazursky

“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live:…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than…

— Owen Barfield

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all…

— Anonymous

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen…

— Gary Shteyngart

The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a…

— Wole Soyinka

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become…

— Nora Ephron

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days…

— Margaret Sanger

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.…

— Ben Macintyre

Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your…

— Yasmin Mogahed

“Dear Lord I am tired of forgiving people that offended me. Is there anyway you can fix this people's mind to do…

— Patience Johnson

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter,…

— Roxane Gay

She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college…

— Sandra Cisneros

“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.”

— Fernando Pessoa

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.

— Pope John XXIII

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

— Paul Theroux

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

— E. L. James

I am reading the biography of Pep Guardiola. I find it really interesting.

— Craig Bellamy

Dating your ex is like re-reading a book. It can be fun, but you already know how it's gonna end.

— Anonymous

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

“Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.”

— S.E. SEVER

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

— Kate DiCamillo

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

— Edith Sitwell

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

— Milla Jovovich

I've always loved reading, and as a child I used to try desperately to write books like the ones I read.

— Tom Fletcher

“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.”

— Stephen King

Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

— Karan Mahajan

I don't suppose I'll ever stop hearing or reading about my size for the rest of my career.

— Rob Burrow

“Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds" ~Vianka Van Bokkem”

— Vianka Van Bokkem