Quotes About Reading

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my mother would read to my brother and I and we had all those advantages that everyone says you need to be successful in school and I was successful in school.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.

I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.

I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.

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

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

C' erano poche cose altrettanto intime per lei che curiosare insiemeba qualcuno tra i libri

In quanto a lei, sapeva anche di leggere più di quanto fosse sano, di riporre troppe aspettative nella lettura, di avere una sorta di ossessione nevrotica per la letteratura e i suoi presunti benefici sul piano morale.