Quotes About Reading

I kicked off my sandals, put my ice-tinkling glass on the small table by my current book.

I settled opposite him in my favorite chair, low enough that my feet can touch the floor, wide enough to curl up inside, with a little table beside it just big enough to hold a book and a coffee cup.

Any place books are massed together makes me feel at home.

I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

I read a lot of comic books and they don't mention Dwight Howard much.

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

I don't get time to read often - the last hour before bed is somehow always spent clearing up the day's mess instead.

You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.

There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up with a policy that meets the great need for knowledge: using modern audiovisual methods that the young can connect with.

I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.

If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

English was always my favorite subject in middle school and high school.

Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it's never stopped.

Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

I read the news every night to millions of people around the world. It doesnt test my confidence.