Reading Quotes · Page 164

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

— Nuala O'Faolain

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

— J. K. Rowling

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from…

— Anonymous

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

— Eileen Favorite

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

— Fred Kaplan

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

— Jonathan Franzen

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way…

— Anna Quindlen

“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind…

— Sergio Troncoso

I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I…

— Rod Wave

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

— Peter Guber

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn…

— Frank Crowninshield

“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world…

— Sarah Vowell

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered…

— Frank Bruni

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is…

— Kristen Bell

“I have been investigating this modern problem of decline in readership and my conclusion is that it has little to do with…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a…

— Cassandra Clare

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any…

— William Kingdon Clifford

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at…

— Adora Svitak

“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly…

— Roberto Bolaño

“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel,…

— Mem Fox

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly…

— Joshua Mohr

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

— Anonymous

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

— Emily Berrington

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous

“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.”

— Terri Costola

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

— Barbara Park

“Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees.”

— Donalyn Miller

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.”

— Carmen DeSousa

It's all about reading the game and trying to make the right play.

— Nikola Vucevic

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

— Anonymous

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

— Arthur Helps

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

— Carrie Preston

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

— Stephan Pastis

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

— Virginia Woolf

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost