Start Reading Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. — Jane Birkin
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit,… — Gillian Flynn
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly… — Leonhard Euler
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was… — Samuel West
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's… — Tao Lin
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad… — Karen Armstrong
She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her… — Tim Tharp
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading.… — Jean M. Auel
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to… — Jo Nesbo
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I… — Geoffrey Rush
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! — Keegan Allen
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you… — Jenny Agutter
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five… — Anne Lamott
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't… — Salman Rushdie
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when… — Diane Setterfield
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C.S. Lewis
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you… — C.S. Lewis
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine… — James Frey
Open a book this minute and start reading. Donâ€™t move until youâ€™ve reached page fifty. Until youâ€™ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with… — Carol Shields

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