Reading Quotes

• For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Reading
  • Escape
  • Fingers

• I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Book
  • Books
  • River

• Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

  

  Janette Rallison
  • Reading

• It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Habit

• It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Running
  • Reading

• I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

  

  James Fenton
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.

  

  Edward M. Lerner
  • Reading

• I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• Regarding scripts and projects, I've always been open to reading all sorts of genres and never closing myself off to one, because you never know what you might find.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Reading

• I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Reading
  • Language
  • Boring

• And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • History

• After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Reading
  • Sick

• No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

  

  Avi Arad
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

  

  James Goodnight
  • People
  • Business
  • Reading

• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Up
  • Why
  • Science

• I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Song

• I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar (to me, anyway). Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • Up
  • Real
  • Reading

• I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Reading
  • I Can

• Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Pleasure

• Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Value
  • Humanity

• I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

  

  Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Cool

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