Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

Barbara Mertz

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

Augusten Burroughs

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Arthur Miller

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Art Spiegelman

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

Azar Nafisi

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

Azar Nafisi

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.

Aziz Ansari

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

Ayn Rand

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Charles Bukowski

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Charles Bukowski

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

Sydney Smith

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Sydney Smith

No furniture is so charming as books.

Edward Abbey

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

Edward Abbey

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Edward Abbey

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Elizabeth Dole

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

Elizabeth Bowen

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

Elizabeth Bowen

A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...

David Nicholls

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

David Nicholls

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

Samuel Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Dick Cheney

When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,

Alexander Theroux

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Alia Shawkat

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

Ali Larter

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.

Adolf Hitler

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Adam Sandler

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

Abraham Lincoln

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Anna Wintour

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

Angus T. Jones

I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.