Reading Quotes - page 5

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. (Elizabeth Hardwick)
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. View quote
Dermot Healy
People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. View quote
Max Müller
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. View quote
James Joyce
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. View quote
James Joyce
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. View quote
Mike Tyson
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you. View quote
Ben Carson
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. View quote
John Locke
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. View quote
Oscar Levant
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. View quote
Manuel Puig
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. View quote
Manuel Puig
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. View quote
Manuel Puig
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. View quote
Mark Strand
I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! View quote
Matt Groening
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. View quote
Penelope Lively
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. (Robert B. Parker)
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. View quote
Helen Gurley Brown
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. View quote
Beverly Cleary