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Reading Quotes

On books, ideas, and a lifelong reading habit.

This collection includes a musician's case for teaching reading and dictation before an instrument, alongside a simple, almost self-deprecating admission of feeling born reading. See Book quotes for more.

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

Quotes by Robin Hobb

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

Quotes by Robin Hobb

I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does...

Quotes by Robin Hobb

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Quotes by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I spend many evenings reading or continuing the day's work, but I also enjoy playing the piano, jogging, and traveling with the family.

Quotes by Robert Woodrow Wilson

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Quotes by Robert Sheckley

Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Quotes by Robert Rankin

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

Quotes by Robert Rankin

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

Quotes by Robert Morgan

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Quotes by Robert Littell

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the...

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Quotes by Robert Fisk

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

Quotes by Robert Downey Sr.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Quotes by Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Quotes by Robert Creeley

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

Quotes by Robert Crumb

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.

Quotes by Robert Cormier

Frequently Asked Questions

Is reading described as a lifelong love in these quotes?
Definitely — one speaker puts it about as strongly as possible: "I seemed to have been born reading." It suggests reading isn't just a hobby for them, but something that feels innate. For more on passions like this, see our Love quotes.
Do these quotes connect reading to other interests?
Yes — one speaker lists it alongside several passions, "gardens, art, music and reading," adding they have "eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books." Reading here is one part of a broader curious mind.
Is reading described as important in a child's education?
Yes, quite strongly. One quote warns that skipping it has real consequences: teaching an instrument "without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand." For more on personal growth themes like this, see our Book quotes.
Where do good ideas come from, according to these quotes?
For one speaker, mostly from reading: "Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show." It's a reminder that consuming stories and information can directly fuel creativity.
Where can I find more content about the joy of reading?
Our Like and Always collections both touch on the everyday habits people love, reading included.

Others note how eclectic taste in books runs alongside other passions, and how most new ideas tend to surface while reading or watching something else entirely. Browse Love and Always quotes for related themes.