Reading Quotes

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

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.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

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.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

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.

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.