Reading Quotes - page 3

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. (Gillian Anderson)
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. View quote
Stendhal
It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. View quote
Meg White
Easy reading is damned hard writing. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. View quote
Jean Cocteau
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. View quote
René Descartes
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. View quote
John Locke
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. View quote
Albert Einstein
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. View quote
Mark Haddon
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. (Shonda Rhimes)
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy... View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. View quote
Moses Hadas
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. View quote
M. H. Abrams
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
A book worth reading is worth buying. View quote
John Ruskin
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. (Gertrude Stein)
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. View quote
William Godwin
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. View quote
John Millington Synge
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali