Quotes About Reading

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I could really read was Kurt Vonnegut books.

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

My way of finding a book is to go on Emma Roberts' reading list.

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

I remember reading 'The Running Man' in like one night.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

My life is politics, reading books and exercise.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

I enjoy reading books.

As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.