Reading Quotes - page 6

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. (Beverly Cleary)
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. View quote
Daniel Silva
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. View quote
Jane Smiley
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. View quote
Cornelia Funke
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight. View quote
Bob Geldof
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. (Sharon Olds)
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. View quote
Bob Ney
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. View quote
Chester Brown
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. View quote
Donald Cargill
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. View quote
Elizabeth Drew
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. View quote
Fay Godwin
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. View quote
Louise Brown
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. View quote
Nina Blackwood
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis. View quote
Rosanne Cash
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. View quote
Russell Banks
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. (Russell Banks)
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. View quote
Tim Vine
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. View quote
Tom T. Hall
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. View quote
Thomas Perry
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. View quote
Germaine Greer