Reading Quotes

I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I love a garden and a book.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.