Reading Quotes · Page 95

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

— Anne Bronte

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

— Lin Yutang

“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins”

— Paula V. Hardin

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

— Hugo Chavez

Reading bedtime stories as a family activity seems to have been overtaken by other forms of entertainment.

— Bernard Cribbins

My girlfriend is always reading too much into things. Like my love letter to her sister for example.

— Anonymous

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

— Augustine Birrell

“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when…

— Max Barry

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at…

— Toni Morrison

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

— Wilfred Owen

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as…

— William James

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to…

— Mary Pope Osborne

To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation…

— Helen Garner

Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start…

— Annette Bening

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were…

— Patrick deWitt

A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening…

— David Byrne

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes,…

— Ronnie Montrose

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,…

— Billy Collins

“I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after…

— Howard Zinn

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you…

— Joe Bastianich

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are…

— Italo Calvino

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

— Socrates

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

— Eoin Colfer

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher

It's not research if you're really interested in what you're reading.

— Ravi Subramanian

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

— Seamus Heaney

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches via showing what we call fate”

— Ela Crain

“I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.”

— Amit Kalantri

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

— Anonymous

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

— Eric Thomas

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love”

— S.E. SEVER

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

— Paul Rand