Quotes About Reading

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Of course it is easier to sit the young child in front of the television than it is to read to him or to encourage him to read for himself thereby opening a whole new world of imagination. But these children are our creative adults of the future. They will become our scientists, our artists, our inventors - and the teacher of the following generation. Surely they deserve the opportunity to develop their creative imagination at as early an age as possible.

My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other. Right now I am doing a great deal of reading

i love swimming it is my main hobby and i love reading singing !!!

Postmodernist accounts diametrically oppose reading strategies dependent on conventional aesthetic notions.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin

when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light

With luck, you were read aloud to as a child.

Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.

companies which make vaccines would not be averse to their products being made compulsory. I understand that. I would like my books to be made compulsory reading. Politicians

When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Arthur Brisbane defined good writing, are "easier to read than to skip.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.