Reading Quotes

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.

I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there

Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let there be some work for other people!

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.

This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

I keep reading that Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT GOP presidential nominee of all time - and I actually think that's true.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book