Reading Quotes

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.

Anita Shreve
- Children
- Remember
- Small
For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

Oliver D. Crisp
- Men
- Experience
- He Man

Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.

Karyn Kusama
- World
- Thinking
- Important
I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

Ann Hood
- People
- Time
- World
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Sarah Dessen
- House
- Books
- Professor
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy
- People
- History
- Parents
I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.

Masi Oka
- Up
- Time
- Real
Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

Amity Gaige
- People
- Reading