Quotes About Reading

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.

I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist!

The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the day.

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books.

For me, it's really important when I go into a reading to not have any bias and so that's a big reason why I never know who I'm meeting or where I'm going.

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.

I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.

I've always been a big fan of books.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.