Quotes About Reading

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

The off-screen Priyanshu is a homely person who likes to read, workout, watch films, meet friends and family. He is quite nice and I like him.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading - I always feel I should be doing something else!

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.

Writing in India will not dramatically change till we learn to value books.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

For me, I read and react. I think when I have time and space, I'm a threat to score or a threat to make a really nice play.

When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

Whenever I can, I like to go to Cotswolds, in England, where my husband had a cottage. I spend my time reading his diaries, which I would like to publish.