Reading Quotes · Page 163

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

Whenever I decide that I want to participate in a project, even reading the script keeps me excited.

— Hwang Jung-eum

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

— Robert Southey

“Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.”

— Kevin Focke

“Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.”

— Lemony Snicket

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

— Dr. Seuss

Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting.

— AmiT

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

— Alain de Botton

If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's…

— Michael Haneke

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to…

— Maika Monroe

I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as…

— Jonathan Bailey

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters…

— Roger Ebert

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered…

— Beverly Cleary

“You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical…

— Albert Goldbarth

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once…

— Lewis Carroll

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the…

— Arnold Bennett

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason…

— Christian Bale

Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing…

— Maryanne Wolf

“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic…

— Stefan Zweig

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them…

— Donalyn Miller

My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian…

— Bill Mauldin

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them.

— Sean Doolittle

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

— Anonymous

The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

— Elizabeth Olsen

“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.”

— Anonymous

A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an…

— David Grinspoon

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

I spend a lot of time reading. Also, I pen down my thoughts and perceptions about books I read.

— Mayank Agarwal

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its…

— Claire Messud

“Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.”

— Emilie and Stephanie

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

— Jane Austen

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

— Anna Todd

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

— Samuel Rogers

“Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

— Hilary Hahn

“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.”

— Andrew Piper