Reading Quotes
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.
Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads
You can be anywhere you want in the world, meet different people and learn more than a hundred things in a matter of minutes… all you have to do is READ!
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether.
He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. "—George A. Dorsey, anthropologist
Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.
I read. That's my form of travel.
She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.
People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.
What must not be read must not be written
What must not be read must not be written.
You know the people, " said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time.
You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p
...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.
I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.
If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...
Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.
I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people.
...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.
From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...
Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.
The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.
There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.
Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.
Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.
The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.
Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.
Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.
If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.
As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.
A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.
