Reading Quotes - page 98

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. (R. A. Salvatore)
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. View quote
Walter Lippmann
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. View quote
Jason Mewes
I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it. View quote
James Clavell
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' View quote
Henry Rollins
The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four "R's": reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap. (China Miéville)
In buoying me up, reading also cast me down, made me see what was possible, what I had missed. View quote
Richard Wright
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. But I could not conquer my sense of guilt, my feeling that the white men around me knew that I was changing, that I had begun to regard them differently. View quote
Richard Wright
God only knows what she thought. My environment contained nothing more alien than writing or the desire to express one's self in writing. But I never forgot the look of astonishment and bewilderment on the young woman's face when I had finished reading and glanced at her. Her inability to grasp what I had done or was trying to do somehow gratified me. Afterwards whenever I thought of her reaction I smiled happily for some unaccountable reason. View quote
Richard Wright
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him. View quote
Greil Marcus
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. View quote
Ron Reagan
People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read. View quote
Tucker Max
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. View quote
Veronica Roth
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. View quote
John Hodgman
There are two ways you can read the Bible. One is with the light off. By that I mean that you can read it with a proud heart, looking for mistakes, marking seeming contradictions, believing you are intellectually superior to what you are reading. The second way is with the light on. By that I mean with a humble heart, believing that you don't know everything, and that you could gain knowledge by studying the world's greatest-selling book of all time. (Ray Comfort)
For as long as I can recall, I enjoyed reading. I literally read books from cover to cover. Then I started wondering where words come from. Who made them up? Who said that that opening in a wall was to be called a window? Then I discovered that each word comes with a biography. These words have fascinating stories to tell, if only we take the time to listen. For example, the word window comes from Old Norse in which it meant wind's eye. How much more poetic can you get? View quote
Anu Garg
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. View quote
David Icke
I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it. View quote
Robert Sheckley
There were only two things that you were allowed to say, and both of them were palpable lies: as a result, the war produced acres of print but almost nothing worth reading. View quote
George Orwell