Top 100 Quotes About Like Reading
#2. Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
Jodi Picoult
#3. Fine. I'm tame. And boring. I like reading. And the last time I went to a party, I left early because Outlander was on.
Rachel Van Dyken
#4. I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.
Jo Brand
#5. Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.
James Altucher
#6. Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation ...
Henry James
#7. I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.
Roger Angell
#8. I really like reading about how families work together.
Sara Shepard
#9. It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.
(on Tom Wolfe)
John Irving
#10. I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.
Lea Seydoux
#11. That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.
Edward St. Aubyn
#12. Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
Manuel Rivas
#13. Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Robert Duvall
#14. Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks
#15. As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.
Philip Schultz
#17. I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.
Juno Temple
#18. Asking 'What type of book do you like reading?' is like asking 'What do you prefer, Coke or Pepsi?', I may state a preference, but really I'll have whatever is on tap.
Me
#19. Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
Caterina Scorsone
#20. Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
Adam Gopnik
#21. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen
#22. Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.
Robert Baden-Powell
#23. I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.
Missy Franklin
#24. When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.
Les Miles
#25. Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.
Alison Gopnik
#26. Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.
Troy Polamalu
#27. Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#28. I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett
#29. From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google's search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl ... as it's flushing. With the lights off.
Guy Kawasaki
#30. I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real mean. I like reading bad stuff, it gets me excited. In fact, the only reviews I keep are the bad ones 'cause I think they're the cool ones.
Patti Smith
#31. Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
Michael Kimmelman
#32. I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.
Lucia Berlin
#33. A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs.-Albert Einstein
Andrew Clements
#35. When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
Liam Neeson
#36. Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.
Peter Lindbergh
#37. Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.
Simon Pegg
#39. She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved.
Lisa Genova
#40. Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
A.S. Byatt
#41. Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.
Albie Sachs
#42. The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.
Gilbert Highet
#43. I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
Courtney Barnett
#44. 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
#45. Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.
Taylor Swift
#46. Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life
Maya Banks
#47. Exploring the layers of the earth is like reading the pages of a book.
James W. Mercer
#48. I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.
Laurel Nakadate
#49. It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#50. Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.
Alan Ball
#51. Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.
Jeremy Sisto
#52. On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
Vikram Seth
#53. Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
Nancy Mitford
#54. Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley
#55. Adoption and contraception, like reading, mathematics, and stress-induced illness, are products of an animal that is living in an environment radically different from the one in which its genes were naturally selected.
Richard Dawkins
#56. I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.
Megan Fox
#57. Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ...
C.S. Lewis
#58. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do - spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Julia Cameron
#59. So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn't mean I need my real-life guys to act like that.
Colleen Hoover
#60. When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#61. I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
Jonathan Davis
#62. Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading
I like reading books in the bulk.
Virginia Woolf
#63. My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another book, then I read Heidi again. If I stopped reading Heidi in between the other books, I'd be able to read twice as many books, but the thing is I like reading Heidi. So I do.
Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
#64. I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
Max Irons
#65. I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
Haruki Murakami
#66. I like reading ... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
Andrea Bocelli
#67. Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.
Kerrigan Byrne
#68. Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.
Agatha Christie
#69. You'll get so tired of Blair Water - you'll know all the people in it - what they are and can be - it'll be like reading a book for the twentieth time.
L.M. Montgomery
#70. Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, like reading novels: before, reading a book without a Marxist cover would bring down a rain of criticism about being a bourgeois intellectual.
Jung Chang
#71. I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
Viswanathan Anand
#72. Reading him was like reading runes - apparently you had to know the language.
Rachel Lee
#73. There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.
Aleksandar Hemon
#74. A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book.
Laurence Sterne
#76. 'Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
Melissa Bank
#77. If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
Fanny Howe
#78. Life is like reading a third-rate novel written overnight upside down by a crazy drunk.
You're not supposed to try to get it.
Said by E-Wan
Ji-Sang Shin
#79. Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.
Khleo
#80. I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.
Andy Kindler
#81. I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
Megyn Kelly
#82. I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?
Stephanie Perkins
#83. I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
Elle Macpherson
#84. Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
Edward M. Lerner
#85. I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
James McAvoy
#86. When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?
Mike Nichols
#87. I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
Bernhard Langer
#88. I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.
Guy Maddin
#89. Life is like reading a book ... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter.
Christie Cote
#90. I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.
Jane Austen
#91. I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
William Eggleston
#92. Sometime I'll get around to asking why the English nobility have so blasted many names that a conversation about them is like reading a Russian novel. I have a private suspicion it's done on purpose to confuse foreigners.
Jeanne M. Dams
#94. It's like reading a good book. The kind where you don't want to skip pages to see what happens at the end. Each moment is a story in itself.
Renee Carlino
#95. I like reading reviews. If they're clearly hating on you, I try not to read that deeply. But if they really are trying to understand, it's interesting.
Jon Favreau
#96. I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
Pete McCarthy
#97. I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward
#98. Some things are better when it's raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this."
"Lying in bed with me?
Lisa Kleypas
#99. There is no other enjoyment like reading
Jane Austen
#100. Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.
A.N.L. Munby
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