Quotes About Reading

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.

I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.

Breakfast is served on my Herend china and I sit in an old armchair so I can read the papers.

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter.

Singaporeans like Mr. Alfian Sa'at do not deserve to be admonished in Parliament on the basis of a selective reading of their works.

I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to participate in a reading or offer me a show.

Whenever I decide that I want to participate in a project, even reading the script keeps me excited.

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

It was publicly banned and burned by citizens, it was debated on national radio; but above all, it was read.

taking in information is only distantly related to real learning. It would be nonsensical to say, "I just read a great book about bicycle riding—I've now learned that.