Reading Quotes · Page 157

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

— Cassandra Clare

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.”

— L.P. Dover

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

— Charles Spurgeon

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and…

— Norman Douglas

“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just…

— Charles M. Schwab

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there…

— Ruth Ozeki

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of…

— Raymond Chandler

I understand that more and more children under the age of 10 go to bed without having something read to them or…

— Michael Rosen

I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and…

— Jourdan Dunn

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed…

— David Nicholls

In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse…

— Nick Hornby

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His…

— A. E. Hotchner

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will…

— Virginia Woolf

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started…

— Elisabeth Shue

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want…

— Nick Hornby

“[When asked about Writing Conferences] "You meet people that will change your life.”

— Susan Wingate

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

— Mary Ruefle

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to…

— Stanley Fish

I keep reading that Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT GOP presidential nominee of all time - and I actually think that's…

— Steven Petrow

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

— Mason Cooley

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

— Sudha Murty

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

— Caroline Kennedy

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

— Alice James

“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

— Louis L'Amour

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

— Francine Prose

I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.

— George Pelecanos

It's not like people are going to be reading about us every day in the magazines.

— Justin Chancellor

There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.

— Linda McCartney

“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?”

— Graham Greene

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

— Beverly Cleary