Reading Quotes

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

I don't want little kids reading my comics.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

I honestly think people are tired of reading about me.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.