Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aberjhani

When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

A. J. P. Taylor

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

A. R. Ammons

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

A. R. Rahman

Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to Danny when he was cutting the movie.

A. S. Byatt

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

A. S. Byatt

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

A. E. Hotchner

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

A. C. Benson

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Adrienne Rich

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

Agatha Christie

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Adriana Trigiani

I even love the smell of books.

Jandy Nelson

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever.

Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Jane Austen

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Jamie Oliver

Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

Jamie Lee Curtis

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

Jami Attenberg

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

Jami Attenberg

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

Jason Blum

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Jason Aldean

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

Jane Smiley

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.

Jane Smiley

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.

Jane Smiley

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Penn Jillette

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

Carl Sandburg

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

C. S. Lewis

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

C. S. Lewis

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Kim Harrison

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

Alan Furst

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

Al Yankovic

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

Alain de Botton

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.