Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.
I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.
When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.
I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
I love reading about ghosts, near-death experiences, astral projection - which is when you leave your body.
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.