Reading One Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for…
— Maya Angelou
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A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of…
— Julie Andrews
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I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must…
— Gregory Rabassa
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And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of…
— Vikram Seth
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Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out…
— Louise Mensch
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My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of…
— Helene Hanff
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I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and…
— Chris Raschka
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It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
— Brandon Sanderson
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Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man…
— David Adam
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I quite like convincing the person the broom is their favourite actress. They are talking to a broom and they think it's Julia Roberts and…
— Paul McKenna
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for…
— John Foster
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For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of…
— Luke Davies
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The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on…
— Chinua Achebe
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in.…
— Thomas A. Edison
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
— Diane Duane
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He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.
— Peter Kropotkin
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By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book,…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to…
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Reading One Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Reading One Quotes as follows: