Reading Quotes

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.

Less smoking and more reading.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

I am more or less reading all the time.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Israel, in terms of Jewish values, and what I have been reading in Jewish papers, and hear from Jewish around the country, they are upset about Donald Trump.

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.

My parents gave me that gift of "reading is a good thing." I mean my mother was afraid of everything. But she was never afraid that Judy is reading.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?

I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.