Reading Quotes

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Reading have got the good factor.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.