Quotes About Reading

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

I understand German; I can read German.

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.

I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

An actor must read a lot. Books not only make one a good actor but also a better human being.

It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.

The reading of these speeches added much to my limited stock of language, and enabled me to give tongue to many interesting thoughts, which had frequently flashed through my soul, and died away for want of utterance.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

To get up in the morning, in the fullness of youth, and open a book--now that's what I call vicious!