Reading Quotes · Page 23

“Reading is a distraction from comprehension.”

— Eric Bentsen

“Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.”

— Alok Mishra

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

— George Foreman

Reading is good, action is better.

— Eric Ries

Hi you. Yes you. You are reading this. You are beautiful.

— Anonymous

“You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.”

— Sydney Fauser

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

— Roger Rosenblatt

“Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.”

— Keira Michelle Telford

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

— Nick Yarris

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

— Larry David

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

— Sheamus

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

— Derek Landy

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

— Toni Morrison

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the…

— Pat Conroy

But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived…

— Jurnee Smollett

Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das…

— Alasdair MacLean

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,…

— James Laughlin

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare…

— Geoffrey Rush

“Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest…

— Casey Carter

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to…

— Benjamin Carson

I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let…

— Stan Lee

Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the…

— A. R. Rahman

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and…

— Robin Sloan

Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that…

— Lucas Till

Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to…

— Amy Hempel

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between…

— John Green

I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction…

— Jennifer Egan

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation…

— Rick Riordan

“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and…

— Italo Calvino

With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.

— Georgia Toffolo

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

— Robert Lepage

“Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The closet encouraged reading.”

— Jonathan Ned Katz

“The minority evolves whereas the majority just revolves”

— S.E. SEVER

Reading is where the wild things are.

— Jeanette Winterson

The love of reading can be contagious.

— Brandon Mull

I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world.

— Winnie Harlow