Quotes About Reading

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.

I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.

Intellectuals that read a lot of books might not have been interested in Mobb Deep before 'My Infamous Life,' but now they might go, 'Who are these guys?' and check us out.

I know that people in Dubai are particularly well read, educated and intelligent and that the audience in front of me will come looking forward to an evening that is different from watching a film. That is the kind of crowd that goes to a theatre or a play and I am hoping to see many of them in Dubai.

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I think people have to read more and learn more about what's going on internationally.

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way.

I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted.

I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

You can't read Proust at the Laundromat.

I'm always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there's some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.

Virginia Woolf said that people read fiction the same way they listen to gossip, so if you're reading this at all then you might as well read my private asides written so he'll read it. I have to be extremely funny and wonderful around him just to get his attention at all and it's a shame to let it all go for one person.

It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take; with only the patchiest familiarity with its codes; without, even, more than hungrily hypothesizing to what questions this news may proffer an answer.

Part of reparative reading is trying to think about how a story cannot do everything. Nothing can do everything. If you're reading every text, fiction, or criticism looking for it to tick a bunch of boxes — like if it represents X, Y, and Z appropriately to my definitions of appropriate, and if it's missing any of those things, it's not good — you're not really seeing the close focus that it has on something else.

We will not have any Dickens today… but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.