Reading Quotes

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

What are you reading for?

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.

As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.