Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Ignatieff

Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument--that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'--makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

Michael B. Jordan

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

Ray Bradbury

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Ray Bradbury

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Ray Bradbury

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Ray Bradbury

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Ray Bradbury

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

Ray Bradbury

This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

Rainer Maria Rilke

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.