Reading Quotes

It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The world exists to end up in a book.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.