Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological… — Philip Hensher
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can… — Tim Wynne-Jones
It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I… — Sven Birkerts
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to… — R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. — Elizabeth von Arnim
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems],… — Gwee Li Sui
I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading. — Charles Barkley
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life… — Peter Dinklage
On Phantom... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really... I was so… — Gerard Butler
I cannot go to sleep without reading. — Julianne Hough
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are… — Neil Armstrong
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for… — Bennett Cerf
Reading is fundamental - fun to mental. — Eddie Griffin
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others… — Corin Nemec
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard.… — Jesse Eisenberg
I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year — Charlie Hunnam
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it. — Russell Crowe
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years… — Liam Neeson
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends… — Debra Messing
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. — Anton Yelchin
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole… — Meg Ryan
When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to… — Tom Cruise

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