Quotes About Reading

#1. We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.

Charles T. Munger

#2. I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

Linda Hamilton

#3. Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Erin McKean

#4. If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. You don't learn anything just by reading books.
You learn only by receiving blows.

Swami Prajnanpad

#6. I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

Gretchen Rubin

#7. I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

Ang Lee

#8. The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.

Arlo Bates

#9. The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

David Rees

#10. I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

Jake Epstein

#11. My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

Billy Collins

#12. I pity those who have no taste for reading ...

Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

#13. Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Miguel De Unamuno

#14. Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.

Brittney Griner

#15. Told you not to tell her."
"That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship."
"Build a relationship." Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. "You've been reading again."
"Blow me.

Nora Roberts

#16. Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Lionel Shriver

#17. Well, reading Twitter's a lot like staring at an ant farm," Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. "Except without all the productivity.

Wayne Gladstone

#18. I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

Kate Fleetwood

#19. But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#20. I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

Jack W. Szostak

#21. I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

Margaret Oliphant

#22. I don't want to finish reading the book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

Edith Grossman

#24. At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

Steve Erickson

#25. I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.

Kerry Greenwood

#26. All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#27. My dad is one of the funniest people I know. He's the sort of man who can make you laugh just by reading out of a telephone directory ... He's a spastic.

Frankie Boyle

#28. My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach.

Lisa Greenwald

#29. Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

Rick Warren

#30. You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

Jim Gaffigan

#31. Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

Lily Allen

#32. Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

Alexandra Adornetto

#33. I'm not addicted to Reading. I can quite as soon as I finish one more chapter.

Unknown

#34. I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it.

Tony Adams

#35. I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Peter O'Toole

#36. Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#37. I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.

F. Paul Wilson

#38. Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Richard Hughes

#39. My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

Kate Winslet

#40. I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I'm doing. I suspect most people feel that way, even if they don't fess up.

Sara Bareilles

#41. People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

David Petraeus

#42. But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It's still a book if you're reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it's in.

Fredrik Backman

#43. As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

Stephen Gaghan

#44. You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.

Penelope Lively

#45. I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.

David Mitchell

#46. I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

George Packer

#47. You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

Jennifer Lawrence

#48. the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.

Robert C. Martin

#49. The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

Maria Semple

#50. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

Queen Latifah

#51. The fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

George Eliot

#52. I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Robert Sheckley

#53. If you are a woman, reading my tale, learn to fight for your rights and the respect you deserve as a human being. But, if you are a man, reading my tale, learn to respect women and, likewise, advocate for them.

Yanan Melo

#54. I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

Haruki Murakami

#55. All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

Alberto Manguel

#56. Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Maxim Gorky

#57. Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

Nora Ephron

#58. Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies

Scott Westerfeld

#59. Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.

John Steinbeck

#60. If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

Gabrielle Zevin

#61. It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

Paul Haggis

#62. But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

Hilary Mantel

#63. I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.

Julian Lennon

#64. Reading is at the beginning of the social contract

Alberto Manguel

#65. I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

#66. Reading is a kind of magic that transforms the world around you

Rachel Vdolek

#67. Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

Rett MacPherson

#68. Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

Frederick Douglass

#69. Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

Camilo Gomes Jr.

#70. I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Joanne Harris

#71. Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

Laura Bush

#72. Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

Stephen King

#73. Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Richard Carlson

#74. The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler

#75. Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#76. I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

Charlie Hunnam

#77. If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.

Ian McEwan

#78. Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison.

Judith Works

#79. I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don't deny their influence.

Katherine Reay

#80. Reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept.

Paulo Coelho

#81. Reading should be a repeat performance.

John Barton

#82. I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

Dave Barry

#83. How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Kurt Vonnegut

#84. The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don't entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it's impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it.

Kristin Cashore

#85. Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books ...

George Washington Carver

#86. I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#87. Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it.

BOB

#88. If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Caitlyn Jenner

#89. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
make contact with reality after a day of making things up.

Nora Ephron

#90. I'm always reading books - as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

Ernest Hemingway,

#91. I remembered reading that the sweat and breath of certifiable psychopaths have a subtle but distinctive chemical odor because of certain physiological conditions accompanying that mental disorder. Maybe her breath smelled of craziness.

Dean Koontz

#92. I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

Manolo Blahnik

#93. Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Katherine Paterson

#94. And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don't mention that.

Rush Limbaugh

#95. As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.

Anne Fadiman

#96. Reading is a light.

Larry Good

#97. I'm actually thinking about maybe, on a spacewalk, not wearing my glasses. I normally wear those both for reading and a little bit of a distance correction, but the distance vision seems like it's gotten a little bit better. So I might go without.

Scott Kelly

#98. If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Clint Eastwood

#99. Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#100. She started reading again, and felt Levi's elbow curve around her shoulder.

Rainbow Rowell