Reading Quotes

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.