Top 100 About Reading Quotes
#1. And, anyway it's not always about fitting in."
"It's not?"
"Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.
Melissa Keil
#2. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
Virginia Woolf
#3. It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells you you're too old to believe either.
Elle Alexander
#4. Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
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George V. Higgins
#5. When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,
Dick Cheney
#6. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
Joyce Rachelle
#7. There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.
Matthew Pearl
#8. The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.
Scott Adams
#9. One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.
Catherine Austin Fitts
#10. Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.
Carlo Rovelli
#11. If you can't learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else.
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
Joyce Meyer
#13. Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.
Donalyn Miller
#14. What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.
Oprah Winfrey
#15. A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.
Kimberly Karalius
#16. If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.
Maria Kodama
#17. Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone ... each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.
John Green
#18. As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.
Gail Carriger
#20. One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.
Andrew Kreisberg
#21. I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.
Joe Posnanski
#22. The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
Eoin Colfer
#23. I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.
Raquel Welch
#24. The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your shelf. There is no prerequisite reading regimen for being a bookworm.
Lauren Leto
#25. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.
Jennifer Silverwood
#26. She felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
Alan Bennett
#27. I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
Emmma Watson, about reading
Emma Watson
#28. Reading is being present yesterday and tomorrow, but not right now. Traveling is being present right now, but not right here. Writing is all about reading and traveling, anytime, anywhere.
Sonnia Kemmer
#29. Humans had proven to be unusually good at learning to recognize visual patterns; we internalize our alphabets so well we don't even have to think about reading once we've learned how to do it.
Steven Johnson
#30. When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading is not just about reading,you have to use your imagination,make the characters alive and be one of them,feel them ... and presto,you'll never be alone!
Mareez Reyes
#31. I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins the fun of reading a good story like the evil English army of Discuss, Analyze, and that hideous duo Compare and Contrast.
Kevin Emerson
#32. I could tell you more about reading and how it perked up our spirits while the Germans were here.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#33. Women are generally more intuitive about reading the faces of others but they are also easier to read (by both men and women). This is because women tend to be more emotionally expressive.
Glen Wilson
#34. I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
Julia Quinn
#35. Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.
Cathy Moriarty
#36. The statistics about reading are particularly discouraging: The average software developer, for example, doesn't own a single book on the subject of his or her work, and hasn't ever read one.
Tom DeMarco
#37. If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important to be able to say, "You know, I read the most wonderful poem the other day. Let me tell you about it."
Pat Mora
#38. when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The
Brittainy C. Cherry
#39. That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
Al Yankovic
#40. My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#41. I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
Jerry Spinelli
#42. There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.
Chris Sharma
#43. Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.
Taylor Ellwood
#44. Limbo. It's not Heaven, and it's not Hell. It's the in-between.' (Edward speaking about reading the Divine Comedy.
Luke: 'This was, I realised, my new address.
Jodi Picoult
#45. Whatever. I've never understood what the big deal is about reading." He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs. "Going to another place. Getting lost in time. Pretending that you're living a different life." He heads down the stairs and I follow him. "What's not to love?
Jessica Sorensen
#46. Startups aren't about reading the crystal ball; they're about your ability to react.
Matt Blumberg
#47. Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
Buzz Aldrin
#48. Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'
James Patterson
#49. One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don't happen. It's the book you wrote; that's all.
Samuel R. Delany
#50. Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation.
William Shakespeare
#51. Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids.
Dean Koontz
#52. When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
Lauren Willig
#53. I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
Ashwin Sanghi
#54. I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. I think biographies are very urgent to children.
Joan Didion
#55. The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.
Seth Rogen
#56. I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.
Rebecca Stead
#57. The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.
Anna Todd
#58. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.
Nancy Atwell
#59. I mean the good thing about Marvel is that they're really good about reading what they call the shareholders - the fans. Because they really are the keepers of what keeps these movies going, you know?
Justin Theroux
#61. Even when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The pages were somewhat of a reminder that maybe one day I would be
Brittainy C. Cherry
#62. As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
Hans Zimmer
#63. It's about being ourselves, our real best selves, the women God made us to be. It's about reading the writing on our feminine souls - writing engraved there from the moment God formed us in our mothers' wombs - then living what that writing proclaims.
Emily Stimpson
#64. The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
J.K. Rowling
#65. That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#66. I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
Kate Beckinsale
#67. I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.
Josh Radnor
#68. Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.
Betty Smith
#69. The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
Taylor Swift
#70. My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.
Norman Finkelstein
#71. We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.
Charlaine Harris
#72. When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt
#73. I didn't care as much about reading the page as I did about flipping the page.
Ariel Bissett
#74. There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.
C.S. Lewis
#75. Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.
William Safire
#76. I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.
Harvey Weinstein
#77. Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?
Greg Proops
#78. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
#80. I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.
David Mitchell
#81. I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.
Saul Williams
#82. You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
James Patterson
#83. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. Nancie Atwell9
Kenny Pieper
#84. My advice about reading is to do a lot of it.
Stephen King
#85. I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
#86. I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
Armie Hammer
#87. I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.
Stephen Colbert
#88. I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
Steven Soderbergh
#89. I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.
Sandra Cisneros
#90. But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.
Lisa Kleypas
#91. No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
Rebecca Solnit
#92. I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
Ann Hood
#93. The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo Walton
#95. If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
Benjamin Franklin
#96. I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.
Will Hobbs
#97. Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.
David McCullough
#98. I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.
Shakira
#99. Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.
Adriana Trigiani
#100. My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.
Hannah Ashworth
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