Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind… — James Laughlin
Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world,… — Paulo Freire
There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next day, and the… — Ted Bundy
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions… — John Scalzi
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad. — David Karp
Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you… — Nouriel Roubini
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor,… — A J P Taylor
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading “What… — Nancy Milford
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. — Tommy Hilfiger
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. — Augusten Burroughs
Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then… — Jacque Fresco
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books — Meles Zenawi
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in… — Talal Asad
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've… — Roger McGough
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day. — Charlie Munger
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating… — Edwidge Danticat
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for… — C S Forester
If you enjoy reading something, read it. — S E Hinton
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book… — Caroline B. Cooney
Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of… — Scott Turow
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense… — Helen Dunmore

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