Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

Good reading makes for damn hard writing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. — Marianne Moore
Reading musses up my mind. — Henry Ford
There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related. — Francois Mauriac
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this… — Blaise Pascal
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and… — Ambrose Bierce
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence… — Ambrose Bierce
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers. — Matt Mullenweg
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.' — Maryrose Wood
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. — Margaret Millar
I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames,… — Roger Angell
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought… — Richard Dawkins
Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away. — Marshall Sylver
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. — Henry David Thoreau
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino
I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times… — Stanley Crawford
Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met. — Mario Batali
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write… — Susan Orlean
There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women. — Anatole France
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer
As long as I'm reading, I'm at home. — George Foreman

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