Quotes About Reading

But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.

They writes some bits o' their letters in them wee codies. That's a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It's hard enough readin' the normal words, wi'oot somebody jumblin' them all up.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn't involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn't hunt inoffensive animals, either. They did what he told them to. So, he'd said, he wanted to write.

Reading has not only changed my life but saved it. the right picked at the right time—especially the one that scares us, threatens to undermine all we have been told, the one that contains forbidden thoughts—these are the books that become Eve's apples.

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar.

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

Reading was and still is my real joy.

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I was definitely always the bigger girl and kind of weird. I didn't make friends very easily and I was a big reader, so I was very antisocial, and I knew that people were judging me.

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.