Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam--we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book… — Tim Burton
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre
It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors. — Cesar Millan
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. — Justin Cronin
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. — Macklemore
I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter… — Brian Michael Bendis
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather. — Leigh Hunt
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury
There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for… — Harry Allen Overstreet
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book. — William Shakespeare
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. — Alexander Pope
Reading is seeing by proxy. — Herbert Spencer
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Unknown Author
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try… — Jack Ohman
When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else. — Rebecca Wells
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the… — Sue Monk Kidd
Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in… — Mary Karr
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work… — Thomas Keneally
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is… — Noy Holland

Who Wrote These Reading Quotes

2,815 authors contributed a total of 4,849 Reading Quotes, led by these top contributors: