Quotes About Reading

well it's almost noon and i've done nothing all day, all my great plans shot to hell, of getting up at 7 and writing 3 new poems 1 new story 5 letters of sending out submissions to 4 new magazines and making several phone calls all by noon – so i'll just keep drinking coffee and reading from the stack of books on my kitchen table and maybe i'll go catch a flick and maybe just maybe i'll get half as much done tomorrow.

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

Creative people generally are self-motivated, independent, delighted by novelty, risk takers, tolerant of ambiguity, deeply involved in their work, avid readers, and world travelers.

They may not spell brilliantly, they may not have the most amazing command of the English language. But they are willing to learn, and they read like crazy. They write, because they have loved so much to read.

nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on campus, taking turns reading aloud from the books we held on our laps, while the wind wet leaves gossiping in the old trees above us and the creek rustled in its stony bed.

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a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.