Reading Quotes

I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.

The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.

Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to read that I wouldn't normally seek out, and I think vice versa.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

With a book he was regardless of time...