Reading Quotes

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.

The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.