Quotes About Reading

I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I just remember playing in my school and then getting invited to go along to train with a development squad at Reading. My first training session, the manager said, 'You have to come and play with the academy girls,' so that would probably be my first footballing memory.

Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I've got a stack of the 'Walking Dead' comic books next to my bed here.

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.