Reading Quotes

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

We can be bought, but we cant be bored.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

I'm good at reading people.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

The less we know the more we suspect

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things make you realize that people are reading your site and that you have an influence.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.