Reading Quotes

• I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Reading
  • Positive
  • Memories

• Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • People
  • Kids
  • Cool

• The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Learning

• I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.

  

  Ann Cleeves
  • People
  • Reading
  • Pain

• Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Children
  • She
  • Words

• I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

  

  Megan Amram
  • Long
  • Bad
  • Hate

• A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Dying

• I dream of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all the times we fished together. Do you remember all the times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. -Jalil's letter

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Together

• I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Worry

• In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Writing
  • Children
  • School

• I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Animal

• Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Book
  • Error
  • Novels

• A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Enough
  • Psalms

• I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

  

  Joe Abercrombie
  • People
  • Reading

• I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Education
  • English
  • Literature

• I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

  

  Cliff Curtis
  • Good
  • Poetry
  • Weird

• I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Reading

• I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Why

• These men traveling down to the City in the morning, reading their newspapers or staring at advertisements above the opposite seats, they have no doubt of who they are. Inscribe on the placard in place of the advertisement for corn-plasters, Elliot's lines:

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • City
  • Morning

• In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Today
  • Christian

• As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Father
  • Reading
  • Picture

• I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Work
  • Reading

• I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Time
  • Work
  • America

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