Reading Quotes

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
Jim Davis

Happy, Fun, State

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
Jeff Bezos

Important, Readers

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
Mary Oliver

Happiness, Time, Great

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
Bob Geldof

Tired, End, Quite

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
Charlize Theron

Travel, Whole, Africa

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
Carrie Underwood

Mean, Said, American

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Activity, Civil

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
Robert B. Parker

Work, Best, Done

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Raul Julia

Wife, Book, Special

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
Debra Winger

Change, Moving, Friend

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
Leighton Meester

Sense, Pride, Books

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
Nicholas Sparks

Writing, Done, Learn

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
Harlan Coben

Experience, Black, Makes

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
Fred Durst

Life, Time, God

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Work, Age, Children

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.
Antonio Banderas

Music, Writing, Caught

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
Jane Smiley

Hot, Sound, Novel

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.
Amy Grant

Home, Bible, Taught

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.
Tom Hanks

Legal, Different, Makes

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol

School, Children, Job

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
Lauren Conrad

Writing, Enjoy, Goals

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.
James Taylor

Control, Started, Superstar

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.
Harvey Weinstein

Love, Time, Death

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
Iain Duncan Smith

Money, Growth, Office

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter

History, Experience, Yourself

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
Danny Boyle

Love, Movies, Loved

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Robert Duvall

Bad, Name, Army

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Child, Artist, Looking

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.
Haruki Murakami

Good, Happy, Dark

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood

Writing, Everything, Democracy

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