Reading Quotes · Page 160

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

— Laura Vandervoort

“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?”

— C.S. Lewis

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

— Mas Oyama

“I enjoy reading books by way of subtitles from the movies they got made into.”

— Jarod Kintz

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

— Marva Collins

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”

— John Keats

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

— Daniel Pennac

I knew at five years old what I wanted to do for a living. I started reading newspapers and books out loud…

— Mauro Ranallo

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is…

— George MacKay

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or…

— Jay Baruchel

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a…

— Cynthia Ozick

“You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which…

— Robin Sacredfire

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work…

— Colette Freedman

“Writing and reading allow one consciousness to find and take shelter in another. When the minds of the reader and writer perfectly…

— Anonymous

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at…

— Carmen Johnson

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother…

— Chris Abani

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on…

— William Gaddis

“It is s shame that more people do not appreciate the value of "a good read". I was fortunate enough to have…

— Linda Roberts

From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself,…

— Caryl Phillips

“The first book I ever read that made me cry. I was seven and hadn’t realized books could do that. Just finish…

— Mary Ann Rivers

I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so…

— Rick Riordan

“Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or…

— Steven E. Landsburg

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

— Charles Kuralt

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

— Harold Bloom

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in…

— Ava DuVernay

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

— Henry Miller

Do not learn the art of face Reading, somewhere you should not hate life, all written on the heart of the recent

— Mak_786

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

— Rick Moody

“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.”

— Kevin Smokler

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

— Anne Fadiman

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

— Courtney B. Vance

“I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take…

— M.J. McGuire

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

— James Joyce

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so…

— Nicole Gale Anderson

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

— Amy Grant

“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”

— Orna Ross