Reading Quotes

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.