Reading Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

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

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

I'm wondering what to read next.

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

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.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.