Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mindy Kaling

This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.

Mindy Kaling

All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.

Kumi Naidoo

Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be.

Kirsten Dunst

The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

Molly Ivins

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

Mike Schmidt

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

Nathalie Sarraute

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Natalia Makarova

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world,

Natalie Babbitt

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Nancy Mitford

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

Katherine Mansfield

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Katherine Mansfield

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Katherine Paterson

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

Katherine Paterson

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

Katherine Paterson

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

Kate Fleetwood

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

Kate DiCamillo

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

Kate DiCamillo

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

Kate DiCamillo

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

Karin Slaughter

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

Karin Slaughter

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Karen Thompson Walker

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

Karen Thompson Walker

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

Kristen Bell

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

Kevin Nealon

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

Kevin O'Leary

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

Ken Burns

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Ken Follett

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

Kathy Griffin

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

Keanu Reeves

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Childhood reading is so important.

Kristen Stewart

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.