Reading Quotes

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use… — Laura Bush
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool… — Meg Cabot
I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking… — Nicolas Cage
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. — Michael Caine
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. — Truman Capote
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. — Donald Cargill
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection… — Thomas Carlyle
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. — John le Carre
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' — Lewis Carroll
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what… — Benjamin Carson
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring… — Angela Carter
I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix;… — Helena Bonham Carter
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books,… — George Washington Carver
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both… — Rosanne Cash
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. — Nick Cave
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the… — Nick Cave

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