E Reading Quotes

Video games just can't compare with the variety and intensity of reading.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF READING THIS TWEET U JUST GO SIT AND CONTEMPLATE THIS EARTH'S NATURAL BEAUTY

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.