Reading Quotes

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.
Lee Child

Job, Long, Writing

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess

Book, Possession, Substitute

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.
Shel Silverstein

Around, Wanted, Far

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.
Jimmy Fallon

Wanted, Found, Please

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

American, Actually, Culture

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
Robert Smith

Able, Missed, Worlds

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
Emmanuelle Beart

Women, Fire, Play

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.
Michelle Malkin

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
Colin Farrell

Science, Enjoy, Fiction

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
Stephen Ambrose

Listen, Material, Forces

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield

Same, Another, Lives

When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
Jack Lemon

Love, Afraid, Able

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
Bobby Orr

Wait, Until, Fat

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.
Mary MacLane

Girl, Book, After

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
Elle Macpherson

Work, Happen, Working

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
Robin Gibb

Time, Good, Book

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
Donna Tartt

Work, Learned, Looking

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis

Work, Nothing, Writer

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Mary Schmich

Ticket, Everywhere, Discount

Anything that gets children reading is fine.
Michael Morpurgo

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
Michael Morpurgo

Love, Children, Parents

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Michael Morpurgo

School, Children, Learn

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo

Education, Best, Hope

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
Michael Morpurgo

Love, Great, Parents

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
Michael Morpurgo

Reality, Book, Cannot

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.
Michael Morpurgo

Time, Mother, Woman

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

Education, Through, Point

I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.
Terry Eagleton

Time, Together, Him

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
John Green

Love, Time, Person

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green

True, Book, Person

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