Quotes on Reading

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Author: Lord Acton

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

Author: Wally Amos

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Author: Jorge Borges

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Author: Jackson Browne

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Author: Elizabeth Browning

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Author: Anatole Broyard

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

Author: Robert Byrne

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Author: George Byron

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Author: John Cale

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

Author: Edward Carpenter

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Author: Raymond Chandler

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Author: Beverly Cleary

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

Author: Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Author: Mason Cooley

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

Author: Russell Crowe

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Author: Richard Darman

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

Author: Larry David

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

Author: Douglas Dunn

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

Author: Bob Edwards

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Author: Ralph Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Author: Jim Evans

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.

Author: Jimmy Fallon

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

Author: Jim Fiebig

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Reading is important.

Author: John Garfield

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Author: William Godwin

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

Author: John Gould

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Author: Juan Goytisolo

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

Author: Jonny Greenwood

We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.

Author: Rupert Grint

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Author: Ursula Guin

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

Author: Jay Hernandez

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Author: Guillermo Infante

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Author: Bruce Jenner

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Author: Chuck Jones

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Author: Charles Kuralt

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

Author: Rebecca Loos

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Author: Mary MacLane

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Author: Margaret Mahy

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Author: Don Marquis

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.

Author: John McGahern

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.

Author: James Meade

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Author: Charles Montesquieu

There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.

Author: Jeffrey Morgan

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Author: Wilfred Owen

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Author: Amanda Peet

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

Author: Frederik Pohl

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

Author: Kevin Richardson

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Author: Mary Schmich

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Author: William Shatner

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Author: Robert Sheckley

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Author: Jane Smiley

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

Author: Suzanne Somers

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Author: Wallace Stegner

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Author: Gloria Steinem

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

Author: Michael Stipe

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.

Author: Theodore Sturgeon

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Author: William Styron

I enjoyed reading as a child.

Author: Goh Tong

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Author: Goh Tong

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Author: Charlie Trotter

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Author: Mike Tyson

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Author: Jack Vance

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Within the pages of a book, you'll find a whole new world waiting to be explored.

Author: Jasmine Davis

Life's greatest adventures are hidden within the pages of a book, waiting to be discovered.

Author: Olivia Peterson

Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book.

Author: Gabriela Moore

A book is a magical gateway to different worlds, where imagination and knowledge collide.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Sometimes the greatest adventures are those found within the pages of a book.

Author: Samantha Smith

Life's greatest adventures are found in the pages of a well-worn book.

Author: Sophia Williams

The world is a vast library, and every book we read reveals a new chapter of our own story.

Author: Alex Carter

All of life's answers can be found within the pages of a good book.

Author: Rachel Johnson

A book is a magic portal that can transport you to distant lands and ignite your imagination

Author: Sophia Martinez

Every page turned is a new adventure awaiting your discovery.

Author: Amelia Johnson

Between the pages of a book is where the mind takes flight and the soul finds solace.

Author: Sophia Moore

Books are like passports to endless adventures waiting to be explored.

Author: Samantha Greene

The greatest adventures are often found in the pages of a book, waiting to be discovered by those brave enough to turn them.

Author: Sophia Hall

The greatest adventures are found in the pages of a book, where the imagination knows no bounds.

Author: Sophia Cruz

A book is the only treasure where rough diamonds are also hidden within its pages

Author: Stephanie Brown

Between the pages of a book is a wonderful world waiting to be explored.

Author: Sophia Lee

Sometimes the greatest adventure is found within the pages of a book.

Author: Amelia Knight

Nourish your mind with books, your heart with kindness, and your spirit with adventure.

Author: Harper Collins

Sometimes the greatest adventures can be found in the pages of a book.

Author: Emily Roberts

Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book

Author: Samantha Reid

Sometimes the greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, where imagination knows no boundaries.

Author: Melanie Johnson

A library is a place where you can time travel without leaving your chair.

Author: Emma Watson

Nourish your mind with books like you nourish your body with food.

Author: Sophia Martinez

The greatest and most fulfilling adventures can often be found within the pages of a book.

Author: Lily Collins

The greatest adventures are often found within the pages of a book, where the limitless landscapes of the mind unfold in boundless wonder.

Author: Sophia Chang

Losing yourself in the depth of a good book is finding yourself in new perspectives.

Author: Catherine Li

The greatest adventures are those found within the pages of a book.

Author: Emily Clarke

In the silent pages of a book, one can find the loud echoes of the soul.

Author: Lily Harrison

Losing yourself in a novel is a good way to find yourself

Author: Sophia Stevens

Life's greatest adventures can be found within the pages of a book.

Author: Lily Chen

A book is a magic portal that transports us into different worlds and ignites our imagination

Author: Sarah Johnson

Within the pages of a book, you can become anyone, go anywhere, and do anything.

Author: Emma Rhodes

The greatest adventures are often found in the pages of a book.

Author: Lily Evans

The greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, where each turn leads to a new world waiting to be discovered.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

A good book is a bridge to countless worlds waiting to be explored.

Author: Emily Parker

Sometimes the best adventures are found within the pages of a book.

Author: Emily Johnson

Between the pages of a book lies a world waiting to be discovered

Author: Sarah Johnson

Books hold the magic of tapping into different worlds, allowing us to escape reality for a little while.

Author: Rachel Smith

So many books, so little time.

Author: Frank Zappa

Sometimes the best adventure is simply a good book and a comfy chair.

Author: Emily Moore