Top 1200 Great Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

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.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

There are great news anchors; they're probably very smart, but they're not talking to the audience like real people. They're just reading from a teleprompter.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.