Reading Book Quotes

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to promote reading.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound".

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.