Top 1200 Reading More Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

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.

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

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

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.

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.

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

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

And when you finish reading, read some more.

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

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.

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

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.

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

No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

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.

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

Less smoking and more reading.

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

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

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

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

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

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

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

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.

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

Reading is more important than writing.

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

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

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

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

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

I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.

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 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.

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

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

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

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

When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.

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.

I think that the way forward now is more schemes and much more disabled people on TV: in sitcoms, in soaps. A disabled person reading the news would be the dream.

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

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