Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

Neil Gaiman

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

John Piper

Reading is more important to me than eating.

John Wilbanks

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.

John Wesley

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

John Waters

Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

John Waters

There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

John Waters

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

John Ruskin

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

John Steinbeck

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.

John Scalzi

Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Martin Luther

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

Martin Luther

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Martin Luther

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Martin Luther

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Mark Strand

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Mark Strand

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

Marilyn Hacker

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Nick Cave

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

Nick Cave

It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.

Nancy Horan

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Seth Rogen

The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.

Scott Simon

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

Scott Foley

As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.

Seth Godin

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

Ravi Zacharias

You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.

Todd Solondz

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

Sloane Crosley

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

Siri Hustvedt

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Siri Hustvedt

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.