Reading Quotes

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and "Meet the Press," all that fun, exciting stuff.

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

Reading makes me happy.

I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

Real reading is a lonely activity.

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Do not read the newspapers.