Reading Quotes

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.

You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

For me, reading is reading.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.