E Reading Quotes

I'm wondering what to read next.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.