Reading Quotes

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings.

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

The sentence im reading is terrific.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.