Reading Quotes

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

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.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.