Quotes About Reading

Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

I try to read spinners and dictate to them, but they know very quickly if you're not reading them or if you're not confident.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

As a medium reading people in the public eye it really is my job to read information from my clients that isn't out there publicly and really tap into those private details.

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

We want the reading experience of digital comics to be as simple as tapping a tablet or an arrow key or mouse button to move forward or back.

I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to do it, and the kids should get to see you as a parent reading for your own pleasure. It's not something you send your kids off to do, 'Go into your room and read for 15 minutes or else.' It becomes a task then.

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.