Quotes About Reading

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

If you ask me what I like about Green Arrow, I can tell you that I read 'Longbow Hunters' years ago and that it's my favorite Green Arrow.

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.'

As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

When I read a script I either immediately identify with the character or I don't. If I find myself reading the part in my own voice I think 'This is a bit of a drag, isn't it?' and it's no good.

As a parent I know how challenging it can be to identify the right books and how rewarding it can be when you do find the right fit.

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

I would read all day if I could.

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and that is I like to build images and be a creative reader, and so I write that way.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.