Reading Quotes

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.