Reading Quotes

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in bed with me?

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didnt know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.