Reading Quotes

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a matter of reading the inscription He wrote for you.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.