Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what… — Anne Rice
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by… — Louis Aragon
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my… — Jeffery Deaver
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front… — Sharon Olds
The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led… — John Haines
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings,… — Glenn Miller
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part… — Carolyn Mackler
Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language.… — Ezra Taft Benson
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit,… — Gillian Flynn
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. — Claire Messud
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you… — Jonathan Franzen
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to… — Diana Gabaldon
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.… — Anita Diament
We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing.… — Huey Newton
Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies, — Paul LePage
As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone… — Peter Sloterdijk
I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over… — William Zinsser
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real… — Bill Gates
I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact affecting… — Eric Schmidt
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is… — Marcel Proust
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day. — Mike Schmidt
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant

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