Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samantha Bee

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

Sam Walton

I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

Rulon Gardner

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

Rufus Choate

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Rufus Sewell

I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

Rumer Godden

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Rufus Wainwright

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Roxane Gay

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

Roxane Gay

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

Robert Jordan

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

Roberto Bolano

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

Roberto Bolano

Reading is more important than writing.

Roberto Bolano

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Roberto Bolano

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Robertson Davies

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Robert Stone

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

Robert M. Pirsig

The more you read, the more you calm down.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Wally Amos

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

Viswanathan Anand

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

Walt Whitman

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

Tom Perrotta

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Tom Hanks

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Clancy

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

Tom Clancy

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

Tom Clancy

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

Tina Fey

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

S. E. Hinton

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

Ron Rash

Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.

Roland Barthes

...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.