Quotes About Reading

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man

I'd read Skid Row U.S.A., by Sara Harris

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

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.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.