Reading Quotes · Page 97

I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.

— Sean Doolittle

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

— Manolo Blahnik

“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.”

— Gary Shteyngart

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ Inside Out (VH1)]”

— Warren Zevon

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

— Carrie Coon

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us…

— Junot Diaz

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,…

— Anne Tyler

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she…

— John Irving

“It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too…

— Joyce Maynard

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it…

— Norman Douglas

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in…

— Joseph Campbell

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot…

— Ethan Coen

If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not…

— Rebecca Solnit

When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to…

— Cinco Paul

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending…

— Cate Marvin

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I…

— Anna Quindlen

“I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into…

— Miss Grizzy

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you…

— Frank Smith

It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble…

— John Ashbery

... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and…

— Leonhard Euler

God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment…

— Bonar Law

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

— Charles Lamb

“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives.”

— Ron Clark

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

— Gail Caldwell

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

— Tom T. Hall

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”

— Dōgen

“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.”

— Lauren Morrill

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

— Al Pacino

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

— Doris Lessing

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

— Jaylen Brown

Lord Ashcroft's 2005 report 'Smell the Coffee' made uncomfortable reading for the Conservatives.

— Nicky Morgan

I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

— Asin