Reading Quotes

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

One can transform a place by reading in it.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.