Quotes About Reading

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.

Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.