Reading Quotes

I do a lot of readings.

I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part of this show and the Fringe would be a great experience.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Read good, big important things.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

Reading gave me hope.

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.