Reading Quotes

There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I believe in something.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot how scared and tired I was, and I thought, 'This is what reading should be.' I'm utterly transported out of my current situation.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school days. I really liked the space I was in when I was reading it.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Reading is important.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

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

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I like reading. I just hate school.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.