Reading Quotes

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

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.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.