Reading Quotes

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.