Quotes About Reading

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within minutes, people have ideas, make plans, invent activities.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.