Reading Quotes · Page 77

“Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.”

— Jeffrey Michael

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

“Rosenberg's First Law of Reading: never apologize for your reading tastes.”

— Betty Rosenberg

“Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news.

— Russell Howard

“Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to…

— Maimonides

I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book…

— Kathleen Hanna

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your…

— Caroline Myss

One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me…

— Jennifer Armentrout

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to…

— Sean Astin

I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not…

— Bethany Hamilton

“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,…

— Virginia Woolf

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period…

— Paul Auster

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately…

— Evangeline Lilly

I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.…

— Moby

The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human…

— Michael Merzenich

“In any Arthurian text, whether a rewriting, a translation or a complication of episodes, engages implicitly as well as explicitly with the…

— Laura Chuchan Campbell

I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For…

— Robert Pattinson

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

— Brandon Sanderson

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

— Maisie Williams

“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

— Italo Calvino

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

— Joey Barton

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!

— Juliana Rotich

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

— Federica Mogherini

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

— John Cale

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

— George Eliot

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

— Paul Eldridge