Reading Quotes

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

Keep reading, Keep learning.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

They'll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it.

Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

Life is a book.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

Literature is language charged with meaning

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

There was a day when writers actually read, " he grumbles. "They could quote Keats and Socrates. Now anyone with a keyboard and a fifth-grade education can call themselves a writer.

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils

Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, " Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands

The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self-reliant and totally self- sufficient. it is perfect.

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands

What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice

Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun.