Reading Quotes · Page 87

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo…

— Tyra Banks

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

— Annie Proulx

I like reading and writing, and I am a trained classical dancer.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

— Austin Peck

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4”

— Patience Johnson

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to…

— Errol Morris

I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching…

— Stephen Frears

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before,…

— Paul Rudd

Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself,…

— Robert Baden-Powell

“Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others…

— Charbel Tadros

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they…

— Grace Lin

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no…

— Charles Dickens

I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times,…

— Annie Baker

Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book…

— William Goldman

“Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together.…

— Geoffrey Wood

If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously…

— Richard Dawkins

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we…

— Keith Gessen

“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you…

— Rebecca Solnit

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn…

— Glen Hansard

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Robert Byrne

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

— Bill Gates

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

— Anonymous

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”

— Kim Holden

“Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of…

— Mohsin Hamid

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

— Tom Clancy

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

— Norah Jones

“A dreamer is someone who hopes to comprehend things that others cannot even imagine”

— S.E. SEVER

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

— James Forman, Jr

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

— Terry Eagleton

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

— Ravi Subramanian

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero