Reading Quotes · Page 76

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

— Walter Jon Williams

When I'm reading a book and someone asks me what I'm reading, I don't answer. I just raise book up, so they…

— Anonymous

“Asking me if I like reading is like asking me if I like breathing.”

— Anonymus

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will…

— David Dobkin

When you finish reading a script and you realise that you didn't think of anything else, that you were just focusing on…

— Louis Hofmann

There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that…

— Suzanne Selfors

Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace…

— Brunonia Barry

“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb…

— Walter Tevis

We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading…

— David Levithan

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author…

— Howard Jacobson

“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in…

— John Green

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until…

— Lewis Black

I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in…

— David S. Goyer

In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name,…

— Tom Peters

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and…

— Mark Leyner

I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they…

— Linda Blair

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

— Julianne Moore

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”

— Edward Gibbon

“i love reading and am always stuck in one labrinth of letters or other”

— Sarah Vowell

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”

— Lorii Myers

“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

— Sarah Monette

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

“Don’t dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you”

— Ela Crain

“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

— Dr. Seuss

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

— Reynolds Price