Quotes About Reading

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

I want a house in the country. Just a cottage, with a fence and a cat to sit in my lap and a dog to sleep at my feet. A spot of earth for a graden with flowers as well as vegetables, food on the table, and a little leisure time in which to read the books I've not had time to read or just sit... in the sunshine.

Jack glanced at ken. Lily is a brilliant woman when it comes to academics, but she;'s so blind when it comes to people. It was a small warning to keep Ken's anger from boiling over. She's struggling to accept that Whitney needs to die, but she needs more time. The pregnancy also probably makes her more emotional when it comes to her father. When the hell did you get so smart? Ken demanded. I've been reading all the pregnancy books. jack sounded a little smug.

You're so full of shit," Transporter said. "I read a book on that—" Maestro cut him off. "You've read a book on everything, but if whoever wrote the fuckin' book didn't really know shit, then quoting them makes you look bad.

When sleep eludes you, embrace wakefulness, he told himself, and read until dawn.

Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered. Bryant's blue eyes widened. Good Lord, no, why would you want to do that? I'll take a paperback. Reading a book is the finest way of attaining inner peace.

In the fifteenth century the mere fact of owning and reading the Bible in English was presumptive evidence of heresy.

Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.