My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
~By Jane Birkin ~
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
~By Guy Johnson ~
Rereading, we find a new book.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Reading should be a repeat performance.
~By John Barton ~
At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.
~By Shane West ~
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
~By James Laughlin ~
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
~By Chuck Jones ~
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
~By Oscar Levant ~
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
~By William Safire ~
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
~By John W. Foster ~
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
~By Douglass North ~
That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
~By Elias Hicks ~
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
~By Holly Valance ~
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
~By B. F. Skinner ~
I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
~By Donna Shalala ~
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
~By Russell Banks ~
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
~By Avi Arad ~
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.
~By Jim Evans ~
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.
~By Ann Veneman ~
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
~By Jim Fiebig ~
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
~By Rod Parsley ~
The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
~By James Franco ~
There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
~By Christine Keeler ~
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
~By Sarah Orne Jewett ~
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
~By Jason Marsden ~
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den.
~By Morris Hite ~
I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
~By Sean Astin ~
Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.
~By Louie Anderson ~
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
~By Ted Danson ~
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
~By Moses Hadas ~
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
~By George Jackson ~
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.
~By Rick Larsen ~
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.
~By Chester Brown ~
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
~By Paul Mazursky ~
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
~By William Penn ~
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
~By Wally Amos ~
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
~By Rita Dove ~
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
~By Robert Huber ~
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
~By George Miller ~
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
~By Babe Ruth ~
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.
~By Robert Cormier ~
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
~By Liam Neeson ~
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
~By Louise Jameson ~
I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
~By George Stephen ~
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
~By Zane Grey ~
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.
~By Guy Picciotto ~
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
~By Will Rogers ~
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
~By Sharon Olds ~
They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
~By Katie Couric ~
It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
~By Roger Bannister ~
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
~By Bill Watterson ~
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
~By Angela Carter ~
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
~By Brad Henry ~
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.
~By John McGahern ~
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
~By Mick Jagger ~
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
~By John Wooden ~
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~By Washington Irving ~
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
~By Mary Garden ~
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
~By Lawrence Halprin ~
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
~By Eric Holder ~
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
~By John McGahern ~
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
~By Clarence Day ~
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
~By Boris Becker ~
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
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