Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McGahern

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

John McGahern

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.

John Irving

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

John Irving

My life is a reading list.

John Irving

Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.

Neal Boortz

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!

Sharon Stone

Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?

Sean Astin

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

Michelle Malkin

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Michael Koryta

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Siegfried Sassoon

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Shonda Rhimes

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

John Henrik Clarke

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

John Gallagher, Jr.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

John Murphy

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

John Millington Synge

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Dewey

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

Joey Santiago

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

Joel Kinnaman

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

Joan Rivers

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.

Jimmy Wales

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

Jimmy Wales

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

Jimmy Fallon

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

George Ade

Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.

Franka Potente

Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.

Frank Crowninshield

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.

Frank Caliendo

I was always working, so I would get reading done very late at night a lot of times.

Francois Mauriac

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

Francois Mauriac

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Gayle King

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.