Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.
I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.
I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.
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