Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. — William Lyon Phelps
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading… — Naguib Mahfouz
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really… — Corbin Bleu
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. — Dean Koontz
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I… — Douglass North
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes… — Mary Steenburgen
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson
The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And… — Lisa Loeb
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested… — Harvey Keitel
Anyone should be able to read comics. — Ted Rall
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You… — Charles Van Doren
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the… — Alan Dean Foster
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and… — Nora Roberts
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read. — Susie Bright
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… — Edmond Jabes
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to… — Edmond Jabes
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book… — Sherman Alexie
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there… — Oprah Winfrey
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The… — Tom Peters
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines. — Syd Barrett
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was… — Richard Darman

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