Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. — Robert Quine
And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm… — Trishelle Cannatella
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people… — Antony Beevor
From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my… — Caryl Phillips
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home… — Loren D. Estleman
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my… — Todd Solondz
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight. — Andrea Camilleri
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars… — Laini Taylor
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer;… — Anne Graham Lotz
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac
The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for… — Unknown Author
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of… — Jack Prelutsky
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have… — Jack Prelutsky
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend… — Vaclav Smil
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. — Goh Chok Tong
I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we… — Derrick Jensen
The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all you… — Helen DeWitt
Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing. — Francine Prose
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class — Francine Prose
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll…… — Unknown Author
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. — Glen Hirshberg
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books… — Anthony Browne
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of… — Whittaker Chambers
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts... — Mark Vonnegut
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating… — Arthur Golden

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