Quotes About Reading

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

In so many reviews that I'm reading of 'The Florida Project,' everyone is assuming it's my second film.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks - and he is the blueprint for boxing.

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.

My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way people think Bollywood works, but that's who we are.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

Most of the time what I am reading is leadership books, books on the mind and a lot of deep stuff about spiritual stuff and Christian stuff. So most of my free time is spent reading. I try to read 1-to-2 books a month.

My mother had to stop me reading to make me go and get some fresh air. I used to get so annoyed. She actually had to sit on my book because, otherwise, I would find it.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit down to read some poetry, I usually read more contemporary stuff.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.