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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.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

Quotes by Shonda Rhimes

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

Quotes by Shenae Grimes

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

Quotes by Shel Silverstein

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.

Quotes by Sharon Olds

I find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

Quotes by Sharmila Tagore

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason,...

Quotes by Sharon Creech

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

Quotes by Sharon Draper

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.

Quotes by Sharon Draper

Double vision makes reading the prompter very tricky.

Quotes by Shannon Bream

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.

Quotes by Seth Shostak

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Quotes by Seung Sahn

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

Quotes by Serge Schmemann

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

Quotes by Scott Snyder

I actually come from comics, and I'm big on comics. I was reading 'Walking Dead' from the beginning. Then just being on the show, I was really lucky to work on episodes like 'Pretty Much Dead Already' and 'Clear.' I...

Quotes by Scott M. Gimple

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.

Quotes by Saul David

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.

Quotes by Sarah Zettel

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Quotes by Sarah Zettel

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

Quotes by Sarah Monette

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.