Reading Quotes
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Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.
Norman Douglas
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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
C. S. Lewis
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What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.
Jane Green
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If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard as writing a game, though. If you discount the purely visual pop-up parts, a book is made almost entirely of words. As a novelist, you just need to think of a few decent strings of words and then fill the other 98% of the book with more or less random descriptions of things and exclamation points.
Erik Wolpaw
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I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at the height of the empire or Greece - more specifically, Crete before it was destroyed. Why? Because I'm curious how we all hung out on a day to day basis, what was the chit chat, etc. Reading things in a book never gives you the feel.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
Barack Obama
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The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'
John Niven
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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
Confucius
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The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
Eoin Colfer
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I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
Conrad Veidt
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When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
Mark Bradford
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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Craig Thompson
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I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.
Oliver D. Crisp
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Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?
Peter Greenaway
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How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.
William H. Gass
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You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
Jenna Bush
