Quotes About Reading

If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a book.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

I'm a boring guy. I don't play golf. I read, but how many books can I read?

When I'm on the road I get to read, play golf and do what I love to do - play music. Not a bad life.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.

I love reading beautiful stories. I love poems and yes, I fantasize about someone writing beautiful lines for me.

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.