Quotes About Reading

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

When I get an email from someone who says, 'Your book was the first book I ever read,' or, 'Your book is what made me love reading,' it's just such an honor.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I read good. I was an English major.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining.

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

I read to my kids every night.

The book is my favorites.

Every day I would run to the library to get new books. Reading was a passion: I wanted to understand life. I read Dostoevsky and Brehm, Jules Verne and Turgenev, Dickens and the Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye; and the more I read, th emore I doubted everything. Lies surrounded me on all sides; one moment I wanted to run off to the Indian jungle, the next to throw a bomb at the governor-general's house on Tverskaya, the next to hang myself.

A leitura é como que uma droga que confere um adormecimento agradável aos contornos da crueldade da vida.

La lecture est comme une drogue qui confère un agréable flou au cruels contours de la vie.

Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don't take any drugs, I take books.