Quotes About Reading Lists

#1. I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

Amy Tan

#2. I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

Margaret Haddix

#3. The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

Carl Honore

#4. I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.

Jon Scieszka

#5. Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

#6. It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.

Arthur Smith

#7. I've come to believe one of the reasons God designed marriage was to help us grow in holiness and character. We get to practice on a daily basis being humble, kind, sacrificial, self-controlled, and so much more.

Jody Hedlund

#8. Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Joan D. Vinge

#9. If you think your job requires you to endanger people, get another job.

Robert James Thomson

#10. Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

Stephen D. Krashen

#11. Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

J.K. Rowling

#12. I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Antonio Banderas

#13. Sheep ain't poetical.

Patrick O'Brian

#14. Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

LZ Granderson

#15. I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous ... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy

Lady Gaga

#16. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

Marilynne Robinson

#17. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Annie Lennox

#18. I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

Jim Butcher