Reading Quotes · Page 147

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin...

— Suzanne Weyn

“From now on we will focus on the four Rs: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rules.”

— Dan Gutman

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

— Dana Perino

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

— Stephen Hawking

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

— Helen Gurley Brown

I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.

— Amor Towles

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many…

— Gary Shteyngart

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you…

— Jami Gertz

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath,…

— Rachel Kushner

I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things…

— Katie Melua

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now.…

— Dorothy Hamill

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

— Ray Bradbury

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the…

— Lawrence Taylor

“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste…

— L. M. Montgomery

With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances…

— Malik Yusef

“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an…

— Christopher T. Garry

“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on…

— Pat Conroy

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too.…

— Clive Barker

“I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the…

— Will Leitch

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

At 14, I started reading popular scripts, wanted to learn Telugu, read books and improve my language. Then I got married at 15.

— Sowcar Janaki

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

— Manuel Rivas

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

— Samuel Butler

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential.

— Lara Dutta

“In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!”

— RuPaul

I read two books at a time. One that is heavy and one that makes for light reading.

— Vikram Bhatt

“Christians believe in a big God but do small things and this is a big insult to God.”

— Patience Johnson

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

— William Shakespeare

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

— Draymond Green

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

— George Eliot

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to…

— Bill Gates