Reading Quotes

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

Peter Ackroyd
- School
- Reading
- Learning
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

H. P. Lovecraft
- Important
- Reading
- Always

I've been reading a lot about what the Internet does to our brains.

Emily Berrington
- Reading
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

Colleen McCullough
- Home
- Childhood
- Torture
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

Karl Ove Knausgard
- Writing
- Help
- Literature
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

Harold E. Varmus
- Simple
- Problem
- Cancer
I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

Marvin J. Ashton
- People
- Good
- Mind
As a young writer, I learned a lot about grammatical structure from reading plays, from performing the plays. I think that was a wonderful apprenticeship.

Jennifer Haigh
- Reading