Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of… — Vikram Seth
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement.… — B.F. Skinner
The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no… — Mark Van Doren
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life… — Jacques Derrida
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story… — Boris Becker
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what… — Paul Ryan
And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The… — Rush Limbaugh
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. — Thom Yorke
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play… — Thornton Wilder
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t… — Robert A. Heinlein
We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick… — Walter Dean Myers
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. — Walter Dean Myers
Before they read words, children are reading pictures. — Unknown Author
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister,… — Maurice Sendak
When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get… — Matthew Woodring Stover
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me… — Philip Pullman
Reading for writers is like training for athletes. — Linda Sue Park
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. — Alan Furst
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue. — Rick Moody
I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then… — Rick Moody
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped,… — Larry Niven

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