Reading Quotes · Page 86

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

— Julie Kagawa

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

— N. T. Wright

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

— Richard Flanagan

“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.”

— A.W. Tozer

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

— Rakim

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I…

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm spending most of my time with my family, reading scripts, talking to my loved ones, checking about their safety and meditating.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have…

— Robert J. Shiller

“He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with…

— Stefan Zweig

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at…

— Michael Schur

I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and…

— Jennifer Egan

“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but…

— Sarah Wendell

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only…

— Yvor Winters

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as…

— Donalyn Miller

“Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth…

— Mortimer J. Adler

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always…

— John Isner

He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time.…

— Anne Rice

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was…

— Richard Simmons

My mind goes really quickly and I tend to talk really fast, as you've probably heard, I sometimes lose track of my…

— George Saunders

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become…

— Nora Ephron

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems,…

— Diane Wakoski

“Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

— Bel Powley

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

— Ricky Gervais

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

— Doug Liman

“Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that [reading] opened.”

— Malcom X

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.

— Phil Hellmuth

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

— Charlie Munger

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

— Jami Attenberg

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

— Dan Brown

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

— John Wesley Harding

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

— Manuel Puig

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

— Bella Thorne

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

— Karla Souza

I think reading is important. Not just for children, but for adults across the board.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

— John Cage

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

— Jean Fritz