Reading Quotes

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

No one is reading my diary, that's for sure.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.