Reading Quotes - page 62

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. (Karin Slaughter)

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Karin Slaughter

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Karin Slaughter

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Karin Slaughter

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

Karin Slaughter

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

Carson McCullers

So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on "for company,” or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.

Karen Kingston

The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters. It's psychologically very interesting and acute, I think. That's not the central reading, I think, of the New Testament.

Cass Sunstein

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

Alison Gopnik

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Alison Gopnik

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. (Alison Weir)

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Kevin Hart

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Kelley Armstrong

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

Kelley Armstrong

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

Ken Follett

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

Keri Russell

Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

Claire Tomalin

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming.

Claire Tomalin

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Craig Johnson

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

Chris Van Allsburg

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two. (Christian Bale)

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Quincy Jones

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Lisa Tuttle

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Lionel Shriver

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