Dog Reading Quotes

#1. As simple an act as reading or writing a sentence must be surrounded by perceptory nap and weave ... an itch, a stray memory from childhood, the distant sound of a barking dog, or something left over from the lunch that is found caught between the teeth.

David Brin

#2. I apologize. Hi, I'm Agent Sloane Brodie, your Team Leader. I enjoy reading, cozy nights in, and the soothing sounds of classic rock. I also like to browse the Internet for funny cat videos, but deep down, I think I'm more of a dog person.

Charlie Cochet

#3. I ate a vendor's hot dog with sauerkraut (a combination whose tastiness still makes me tremble), walking fast in order to save as much of the twenty minutes of my lunch hour I had left for reading.

Nicholson Baker

#4. What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.

Debra Messing

#6. My subconscious rolls her eyes at me in despair and goes back to reading her dog-eared copy of Jane Eyre.

E.L. James

#7. I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

Brittany Snow

#8. Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

Jack Gantos

#10. ..reading your ex's horoscope every week isn't going to help you control his life. No, you need to hide in his bushes, break into his email, or kidnap his dog if you want to effect any real change.

Jenny Mollen

#11. But once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not all that interesting. I like reading, staying home, going on walks with my dog - it's like I'm already a retiree. Who wants to hear about that? Especially when I would have to scream it over the music to which no one dances.

Jim Butcher

#12. People who write poetry while walking their dog can't possibly write poetry i'd be fucking interested in

Martijn Benders

#13. I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

Blake Bailey

#14. Alexandra Horowitz's book Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know should be required reading for anyone adopting a rescue dog or buying a dog from a breeder.

Peter Zheutlin

#15. A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

Charles Lamb

#16. It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

Cesar Millan

#17. I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

Peter Dinklage

#18. Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Charles E. McKenzie

#19. I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#20. I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.

Jon Scieszka

#21. He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

Honore De Balzac

#22. I asked her, 'Did you like Sadie?'
Juliet put down the book she was reading. 'I liked her the way you like a hurt dog,' she said.
'What do you mean?' I asked her.
'You feel sorry for it, and you want to help it, but you're not sure it won't bite you when you're not looking,' Juliet said.

Michael Thomas Ford

#23. Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

John Steinbeck

#24. Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.

Mark Rubinstein

#25. Meanwhile, time is one of our most scarce resources. At the moment, you are reading instead of working, playing with the dog, applying to law school, shopping for groceries, or having sex. Life is about trade-offs, and so is economics.

Charles Wheelan