Reading Quotes · Page 93

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”

— Tom Spanbauer

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Reading 'The Last Days of Magic' is like playing a well-constructed video game.

— Diana Gabaldon

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

— Maynard James Keenan

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

— Robert B. Parker

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

— Klaus Teuber

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

— Gabriel Campisi

“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each…

— Nicole Krauss

“Reading sends you on one adventure after the other. It's a way to escape from the world, and comfort you at all…

— Anonymous

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write.…

— Stephenie Meyer

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a…

— Jonathan Evison

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian…

— Jack McDevitt

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or…

— Marie Forleo

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

— Luis Walter Alvarez

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,…

— Lionel Shriver

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if…

— Jennifer Egan

There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what…

— Nick D'Aloisio

“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be…

— Sophie Divry

“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken…

— Kyo Maclear

In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your…

— Bette Ford

The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated…

— Carl Honore

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want…

— Betty Smith

“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't…

— Cath Crowley

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to…

— Stephen Colbert

“Reading without eating food is like Person standing in a war without weapons.”

— Anonymous

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

— James Holzhauer

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.”

— Carew Papritz

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“The amount of excitement when you say hi will be paid back when you say bye!”

— S.E. SEVER

“I've never known any trouble that an hour's worth of reading didn't assauge”

— Baron De Montesquieu Charles De Secondat

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

— Derrick Bell

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

— Adolf Hitler

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

— John Wesley

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more…

— Gore Vidal

' No entertainment is so fugal, as reading, nor any Pleasure so Lasting!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

“We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.”

— Julia Keller

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau