Reading Quotes
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele
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We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.
Anthony Doerr
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At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.
Barack Obama
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My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.
David Grann
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I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time.
Tim Fish
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
William James
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I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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To be honest, I haven't even seen the film yet. Tobey, if you're reading this, I apologize.
Eliza Dushku
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Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.
Jaylen Brown
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I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
Benjamin Clementine
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.
Charles Soule
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
David Markson
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Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.
Lynn Coady
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If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.
Ann Voskamp
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If Bill Shawn liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.
Nat Hentoff
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In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.
Claire Messud
