Comfortable Quote by Gore Verbinski

In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live…

— Steve Leveen

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one…

— Vikram Seth

I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that…

— Michael Madsen

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

— Stephen Ambrose

“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the…

— Storm Jameson

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

— Eyvind Kang

People read with their ears, whether they know it or not,

— William Zinsser

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

— Mary H.K. Choi

What is reading but silent conversation?

— Anonymous

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

— James Laughlin

Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their…

— William Zinsser

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs…

— Ursula K. Le Guin