Reading Quotes · Page 89

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

— Katherine Paterson

When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.

— Eoin Macken

“A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.”

— Sara Sheridan

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

— Jami Attenberg

“Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty

It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I…

— Emma Watson

I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to…

— Ryan Gosling

I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously…

— Jason Reynolds

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do…

— Hume Cronyn

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the…

— Chris Crutcher

“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are…

— Rick Gekoski

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather,…

— René Descartes

“Reading. Well Reading is...It´s really much more than that. A page of print is like a secret passage that leads you to…

— Peggy Christian

You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And…

— Quentin Tarantino

“The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), “Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior…

— Donalyn Miller

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…

— Aleister Crowley

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books…

— Simon Rich

“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate…

— Bill Watterson

I would never discredit the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the fight. I've always thought…

— Chael Sonnen

“Sometimes you need to completely close yourself off from the outside world and enrich your inner world by reading and thinking because…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.

— Robyn Davidson

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

— Ken Follett

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— C. S. Lewis

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

— Helen Keller

“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing,…

— Don Roff

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

— M. John Harrison

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

— George Steiner

“Every story is entitled to have a ‘happily ever after’ ending. However, not all characters are so deserving.”

— Chad B Hanson

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

— Casey Kasem

“Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You can never start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— HaziqSyahir

Why Bother Reading Books? We Have EMINEM He Can Read a Whole Story In 4 Minutes.

— Anonymous

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of…

— Rufus Choate

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

— Adora Svitak

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were…

— Edward Hirsch

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

— Steve Lopez