Reading Quotes

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Literature is news that stays news.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I spend a lot of time reading.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.