Reading Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

I'm wondering what to read next.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.