Top 1200 Love Of Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

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

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

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

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

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

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.

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

I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

I love reading about other people's world view.

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

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.

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

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

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

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

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

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

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

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

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

Nothing makes me feel more mushy and full of love for my husband than going back and looking at our flirtation unfolding online. I love reading our old e-mails, texts, and Gchats.

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.

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

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

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

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.

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

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

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.

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

As parents, the most important thing we can do is read to our children early and often. Reading is the path to success in school and life. When children learn to love books, they learn to love learning.

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.

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

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

Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.

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.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

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

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

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

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

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

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

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

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

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

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

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.

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

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

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