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.
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
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Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
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 have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned...
I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped...
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.
There's a pattern in Bush 43's presidency of being attracted to the big and the bold, and my whole reading of him is that he was instinctively uncomfortable with what you might call a modulated foreign policy - a foreign...
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
