Quotes About Reading

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgivable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes. - Rain

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

Ray did not but could have said, *quote* Me, I read books [.....] How's about you? *closequote*

The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life.

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

I'm quite a calm player. I like to have the ball at my feet, I'm good with the ball and I'm quite good at reading the game.

I don't read much about the Canadian Football League.

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.

I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn't talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the cereal packet.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I first heard of Ulver reading the 'Lords of Chaos' book.

I write scripts, I read scripts, I meet people who chat about their scripts. So honestly, I don't feel bad if I don't act in a film, as long as people are making great films.

I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.