Reading Quotes

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

I never stopped reading.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

Books succeed; and lives fail.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.