Reading Quotes · Page 94

“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read.…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

— Rachel Miner

“I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.”

— Nick Lake

“for me, reading is remembering. the simplicity of knowing what's coming isn't so simple after all.”

— Cat Patrick

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

— Dave Barry

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?”

— Kamand Kojouri

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the…

— William Hazlitt

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the…

— Paul Merton

“Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas,…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening…

— Emilie Autumn

My preferred genre of reading is crime thrillers - books by Harlan Coben, Jo Nesbo, David Baldacci, James Patterson, Ashwin Sanghi and…

— Ravi Subramanian

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make…

— Drew Houston

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in…

— Harold Bloom

I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I…

— Anthony Doerr

“To read is not a virtue; but to read well is an art, and an art that only the born reader can…

— Edith Wharton

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and…

— Walter Kaufmann

It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812…

— Jeffrey Tambor

“The readings required of every Confucian scholar. The Four Books are: The Analects, The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and…

— Issai Chozanshi

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I…

— Daniel Clowes

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

— William Shakespeare

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

— Alister E. McGrath

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

— Lindsey Davis

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

— Frances Fox Piven

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

— Timothy Morton

“Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.”

— Aneta Cruz

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).

— Susan Cain

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

— Neil Gaiman

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

— Dr. Seuss

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

— Richard Flanagan

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

— Iris Murdoch

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

— David Karp