Reading Quotes · Page 154

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

— Jean Cocteau

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

— Elizabeth George

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

— Richard de Bury

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

— James Taylor

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

— Gail Carson Levine

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

— Samuel Butler

Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then…

— Sharon Creech

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

— James Patterson

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of…

— David Cassidy

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing…

— Stephen Covey

“It wasn’t story (good or bad) that pulled me in; it was English itself, the way it felt in my braces-caged mouth…

— Kory Stamper

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing…

— Miguel Syjuco

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so…

— Agatha Christie

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.…

— Alan Dean Foster

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards…

— Irina Bokova

In 'Finding Nemo,' all of the voices were recorded separate - so I would be in a sound booth in a studio…

— Alexander Gould

“Once the writer was at the deathbed of a fellow writer. What interested his dying colleague more than anything else was what…

— Peter Handke

It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.…

— Irvine Welsh

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:…

— C. S. Lewis

I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run?…

— Bill Maher

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie…

— Zoey Deutch

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.

— Cara Buono

I've loved reading since I was a kid. Sometimes I have two or three books going at the same time.

— Leslie Uggams

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

— Laurence Sterne

I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.

— Greg Sestero

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

— Nicole Krauss

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!”

— Christian Lander

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

— Katherine Losse

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

— Aneta Cruz

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

— Virginia Woolf

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

— James Russell Lowell

“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!”

— Kelley Lovelace

“He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.”

— A.S. Byatt

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley