Reading Widely Quotes

#1. I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

Kathryn Lasky

#2. As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Chang-rae Lee

#3. I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Anita Diament

#4. When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

Terry Hayes

#5. Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

Aaron Swartz

#6. I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

Malorie Blackman

#7. I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

George Brandis

#8. Words of others, helps weave our feathers.

Bmmite

#9. My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were ... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Hill Harper

#10. At the very least, we want everything to go on hold for a while because there is this feeling that we're heading down a path in a way that we never, ever intended when we were 18 and dreaming of what life would be like.

Jonathan Coleman

#11. A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.

Wendell Berry

#12. Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Richard Rohr

#13. My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

Camille Paglia

#14. Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will talk of socialism or anarchy, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, which all comes to the same thing, they're the same questions turned inside out.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. When you win, don't swagger. When you lose, don't sulk.

Rick Warren

#16. A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Harvey Milk