Reading Quotes · Page 161

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”

— James Turner

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

— Paul Mellon

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading - I always feel I should be doing something else!

— Rajkumar Hirani

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

— Cyndi Lauper

“Never break what you have in hand because you found a better one”

— S.E. SEVER

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

— J. K. Rowling

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know…

— Joseph Brodsky

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and…

— Ethan Russell Erway

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question…

— Jeaniene Frost

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,…

— Ann Hood

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Benjamin: I'm glad to hear your witirng experiment inspired you to read more. Reading is the best way to learn to write.…

— Mamahooana

She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties...she'd rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone…

— Steve Martin

“This is how it happens: you spend your life reading, reading, and reading more, waiting, waiting, and waiting for something to be…

— Chris Pavone

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all,…

— Louisa May Alcott

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis…

— Scarlett Thomas

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding…

— Michael Silverblatt

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

— Roald Dahl

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

— Orson Scott Card

“History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.”

— Jerry Spinelli

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

— Hans Zimmer

It's best to be happy do your favorite thing to do like,reading a book

— Maria Angelica Zabala

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

— Marti Noxon

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

— Edward Gibbon

“...she judged frivolous reading to be as unhealthy as sweets and pastries...”

— Marcel Proust

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

— Grenville Kleiser

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“WOLF BROTHER is the kind of story you dream of reading and all to rarely find.”

— Ian McKellan

“I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.”

— Joanna Bolouri

“Don't you understand Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!”

— J.M. Barrie

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

— Dan Barber