Reading Quotes · Page 82

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to…

— James Bernard Frost

“Author’s note: what is “close reading? The short answer: without context. Before”

— Terry Marselle

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

— Rob Brezsny

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

— Dale Archer

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

— Horace

“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had…

— Malcolm X

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are…

— Mark Van Doren

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory…

— Flannery O'Connor

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way

— Blake Nelson

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like…

— Roberto Bolano

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times…

— E. J. W. Barber

“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and…

— Peter S. Jennison

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely…

— Jeanette Winterson

I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture…

— Anthony Browne

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for…

— Matt Groening

“As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and…

— Anthony Trollope

I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world,…

— John Larroquette

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or…

— Margaret Atwood

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where…

— Molly Antopol

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”

— Neil Armstrong

What your reading is a bunch of lines that may mean something to you even though they shouldn't.

— Kenaan

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

— David Foster Wallace

“the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

— Fran Lebowitz

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

— Alexander Pope

“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

— Martin Luther

“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.”

— Jane Austen

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

— Coco Chanel

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

— Jay Asher

“There exists in some individuals more than enough talents, expertises, or greatness for more than three people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel