Top 1200 Love Of Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

My biggest thing is that I would love in some form or fashion to return to the 'Marvel' universe, whether in television or a feature. I love the people at 'Marvel' and grew up reading the characters, and it was a real dream come true getting to play with the toys.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.

I love putting on a candle, reading a book, and just taking a second for me.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

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

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

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

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I love book clubs. I just hate reading and talking to people.

The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

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

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

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

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

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.

When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.