Top 1200 Reading Biographies Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

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

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

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

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

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

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

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.

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

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

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

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

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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.

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

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

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

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

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.

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

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

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.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

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

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.

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

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.