Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out,… — Barbara Johnson
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a… — Yann Martel
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. — Rebecca Loos
Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. — Rachel Miner
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance. — Amy Plum
Life does often get in the way of one's reading. — Helen Simonson
Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is… — Brunonia Barry
I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life… — Ayn Rand
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. — Jonathan Swift
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. — John Green
Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace… — John Bunyan
Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. — Dr. Seuss
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading… — Unknown Author
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent… — Elena Ferrante
It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. — Mary Archer
Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. ... — Unknown Author
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly… — Diablo Cody
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong… — Neil Gaiman
Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was… — Dale Carnegie
To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices… — Susan Sontag
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. — Jeff Jarvis
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv.… — Elizabeth Meriwether
So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of… — Emily Levine
I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created.… — Franco Zeffirelli

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