Reading Quotes · Page 79

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

— Susanna Clarke

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

— John Rhys-Davies

“Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading. The Doctor and the Saint”

— Arundhati Roy

“There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.”

— Lyra Parish

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what…

— George MacDonald

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common…

— Alberto Manguel

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life,…

— Amy Bloom

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other…

— Jan Chipchase

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading…

— Peyton List

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the…

— Renee Watson

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one…

— Robert Musil

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads…

— Mark Helprin

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail…

— Claire Tomalin

I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the…

— Hector Hugh Munro

I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you…

— Todd Haynes

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which…

— Marcel Proust

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more…

— Anonymous

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other…

— Italo Calvino

There's a room in my house where my stereo, records, CDs, and books are housed. I spend a lot of time in…

— George Pelecanos

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices… The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,…

— Alberto Manguel

No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries…

— Emily St. John Mandel

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

— William Safire

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Anonymous

“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Reading Progress, select the None option. When you tap the top”

— Amazon

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

— Morris Chestnut

“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”

— Patience Johnson

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

— Isaac Barrow

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own…

— Stephen King

Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever.

— Melissa Benoist

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— Anonymous

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

— Erica Jong

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of…

— Richard Baxter

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

— Judah Friedlander