Quotes About Reading

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies.

I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

Ann Radcliffe was an early influence; I devoured her books while I should have been studying for my GCSEs.

I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.

I played a doctor on 'Counterpart', so that was about studying and watching documentaries and reading and trying to learn.

I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who would become my activist staples - their words helped me grow up and taught me how to be bold and courageous. By studying them, I came to understand that being young and queer and black would not be easy.

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

One of the best things about summer is that it's the only time of year I don't have crazy amounts of studying to do. I can relax with books I actually enjoy!