Quotes About Reading

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I read a lot of scripts at the beginning of 2015.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.