Quotes About Reading

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.

Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

I love reading any interesting book. If it is boring I keep it forever after reading 4-5 pages of it. But if it is good, I can go on reading it no matter what genre it belongs to.

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

I read Ann Cleeves's books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting.

My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.' It's not that glamorous.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.