Reading Quotes

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

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.

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

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

...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.

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

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts.

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.