Reading Quotes
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Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.
Teju Cole
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
Sherman Alexie
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When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
Eudora Welty
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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
Anne Bronte
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
Ray Bradbury
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I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
Steven Soderbergh
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A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
Marcel Proust
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People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.
Rupert Murdoch
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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
Ray Bradbury
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Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
Tommy Hilfiger
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Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.
Northrop Frye