Reading Quotes

I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we think of Red Cross nurses, but here I was reading about women serving as front-line soldiers, women serving as war journalists . . . and women who worked undercover as spies.

Kate Quinn
- Thinking
- Hero
- Imagine
The love of reading can be contagious.

Brandon Mull
- Love
- Reading
- Contagious

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

Stephen Covey
- Believe
- Book
- Perspective
I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
- Book
- Film
- Ruin
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.

Sandra Cisneros
- Book
- Attention
- Latin
From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

Elif Batuman
- Writing
- Age
- Weird
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

Wolfgang Tillmans
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
- Book
- Wife
- Environment