Quotes About Reading

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

La mayoría de mis compras de muebles fueron estanterías. La mayoría de mis otras compras fueron libros.

However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is where those persons go wrong who claim that type was made to read, and nothing else matters but the setting up of a paragraph in a legible type so that it can be easily read. We do not read everything that appears in print, but do read that which appears interesting.

Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

Willi and I might take turns reading aloud passages from some of our favorite books (David Kidd's Peking Story and John Blofeld's City of Lingering Splendour were always at hand), and at least once during each session Willi's wife would come down to the Chamber to say hello and recline for a pipe or two.

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.