Reading Quotes

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

Jon Scieszka
- Words
- Reading
- Cheating
Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.

Jacob Weisberg

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

George Foreman
- Long
- Home
- Book
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

Nolan Gould
- Writing
- Running
- Surfing
It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

Lynn Nottage
- Reading
- Distance
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.

Arthur Smith
- Time
- Advice
- Summer
Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

Alice McDermott
- Life
- Reading
- Wonder
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in that regard, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better example than IN MINT CONDITION: 2013. In reading it, I have discovered writers and artists previously unknown to me who are now very high on my radar, and they should be just as high on yours.

Kealan Patrick Burke