Quotes About Reading

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Great books conserve time.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

I am more or less reading all the time.

I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.