Reading Quotes

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Kate Voegele
- Time
- Writing
- School
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln
- Reading
- Taste
- Others

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nathan Fillion
- Up
- Work
- Long
Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

Barry Jenkins
- Work
- Black
- Funny
I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

Jonathan Galassi
- Reading
- Poetry
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

Garth Risk Hallberg
- Reading
- Hands
- Early
If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

Dan Brown
- Up
- God
- Writing
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

Madhur Bhandarkar
- Family
- Habit
- Books