Quotes About Reading

Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

I'm spending most of my time with my family, reading scripts, talking to my loved ones, checking about their safety and meditating.

People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.

I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.

I'm not a guy on my phone reading about what supporters say about you. You can find many things there and you're not going to be happy!

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.