Quotes About Time Spent Reading

#1. Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.

Robert C. Martin

#2. All time spent reading is time well-spent.

W. H. Auden

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

Robert C. Martin

#4. Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

Daniel Pennac

#5. My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.

Eleanor Catton

#6. 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

#7. A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

John Hodgman

#8. I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.

Philip Pullman

#9. When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

Paul Merton

#10. a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something special. It's like you get extra time, Rachel--the hours you spend reading and the hours your mind spends in that place, that's time that the author gives to you.

E.J. Copperman

#11. I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

Malorie Blackman

#12. I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time.

Nicole Krauss

#13. I've probably spent more time than any other brand reading every last comment. To listen to people the way you're able to online is very powerful.

Sophia Amoruso

#14. I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

Jimmy Wales

#15. I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#16. Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Desmond Tutu

#17. I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.

Rabih Alameddine

#18. The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

Natasha Leggero

#19. I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality

Teresa Mummert

#20. She didn't watch a lot of TV, and she spent more time reading than socializing,

Chanda Hahn

#21. I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Natalie Babbitt

#22. I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

Frazier Glenn Miller

#23. Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

Louise Brown

#24. Victoria was an innocent country gentlewoman who spent her time reading, teaching the local children, painting, gathering armfuls of heather in the meadow. Vivien, by contrast, was pleasure-loving and self-serving... with a moral compass that was most definitely skewed.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Warren Buffett

#26. There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.

Flora Thompson

#27. Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

Ben Aaronovitch

#28. Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#29. The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

Ellen G. White

#30. When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.

John Fusco

#31. I spent most of this weekend sitting on the sofa reading Proust. The only time my mother left her studio, which she locked behind her, was to go to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's house.

Rachel Klein

#32. I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

Tuppence Middleton

#33. A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

Felicity Jones

#34. Too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.

Jo Baker

#35. I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

Tommy Lee

#36. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Samuel Johnson

#37. I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day.

Bernie Sanders

#38. During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.

Rick Warren

#39. I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts.

Steve Truglia

#40. Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.

Adam Yauch

#41. I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

Michael Caine

#42. The time spent rereading one book is one less new story I'll be exposed to in my life.

Michelle Madow

#43. I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

Kate Beckinsale

#44. As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

Robert Lefkowitz

#45. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Steve Nash

#46. Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.

Dan Wilbur

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

Stephen D. Krashen