Top reading Quotes Collection - Page 3

Discover a curated collection of reading quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 3 provides more reading quotes.

Image of Chris Ware
There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.
- Chris Ware
Collection: Reading
Image of Chris Ware
The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons as visual approximations of the way we remember general ideas, and I try to use naturalistic color underneath them to simultaneously suggest a perceptual experience, which I think is more or less the way we actually experience the world as adults; we don't really "see" anymore after a certain age, we spend our time naming and categorizing and identifying and figuring how everything all fits together.
- Chris Ware
Collection: Reading
Image of Kenzaburo Oe
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
- Kenzaburo Oe
Collection: Reading
Image of Suzanne Weyn
Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
- Suzanne Weyn
Collection: Reading
Image of Nancy Pearl
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
- Nancy Pearl
Collection: Reading
Image of Alfred Molina
I think enjoying each other in a creative way is usually a result of when you're doing something that might be problematic - might be a little difficult to uncover. I've done it once in a stage production; we came in for two days and, just as an experiment, the director had us reading each other's roles. You hear another voice interpreting a line that maybe you were having trouble with. It can be very helpful. But we weren't really in the kind of situation where that was necessary.
- Alfred Molina
Collection: Reading
Image of Rick Moody
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.
- Rick Moody
Collection: Reading
Image of Shannyn Sossamon
I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.
- Shannyn Sossamon
Collection: Reading
Image of Bill Blass
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
- Bill Blass
Collection: Reading
Image of Tamora Pierce
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.
- Tamora Pierce
Collection: Reading
Image of Walter Dean Myers
Reading is not optional.
- Walter Dean Myers
Collection: Reading
Image of Lynne Sharon Schwartz
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Collection: Reading
Image of Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Collection: Reading
Image of Cathleen Schine
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.
- Cathleen Schine
Collection: Reading
Image of Daniel Woodrell
When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.
- Daniel Woodrell
Collection: Reading
Image of Ben Okri
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
- Ben Okri
Collection: Reading
Image of Mary Ann Shaffer
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Collection: Reading
Image of Mary Ann Shaffer
Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Collection: Reading
Image of Mary Ann Shaffer
I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Collection: Reading
Image of James Agate
All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.
- James Agate
Collection: Reading
Image of Alex Rodriguez
Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.
- Alex Rodriguez
Collection: Reading
Image of Colin Wilson
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
- Colin Wilson
Collection: Reading
Image of Terri Windling
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
- Terri Windling
Collection: Reading
Image of Jackie French
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.
- Jackie French
Collection: Reading
Image of Harry Turtledove
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.
- Harry Turtledove
Collection: Reading
Image of Dorianne Laux
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.
- Dorianne Laux
Collection: Reading
Image of Joe Meno
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.
- Joe Meno
Collection: Reading
Image of Samuel Pepys
I know not how to abstain from reading.
- Samuel Pepys
Collection: Reading
Image of Samuel Pepys
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.
- Samuel Pepys
Collection: Reading
Image of Sara Nelson
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.
- Sara Nelson
Collection: Reading
Image of Carolyn Keene
Read read read Thats all I can say
- Carolyn Keene
Collection: Reading
Image of Alvin Toffler
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
- Alvin Toffler
Collection: Reading
Image of Sarah Caudwell
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.
- Sarah Caudwell
Collection: Reading
Image of Helene Hanff
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
- Helene Hanff
Collection: Reading
Image of Helene Hanff
I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.)
- Helene Hanff
Collection: Reading
Image of Helene Hanff
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.
- Helene Hanff
Collection: Reading
Image of Steven Millhauser
So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.
- Steven Millhauser
Collection: Reading
Image of Anne Michaels
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
- Anne Michaels
Collection: Reading
Image of Roger Ailes
I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.
- Roger Ailes
Collection: Reading
Image of Pete McCarthy
I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
- Pete McCarthy
Collection: Reading
Image of Annie Proulx
Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
- Annie Proulx
Collection: Reading
Image of John Steakley
Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?
- John Steakley
Collection: Reading
Image of Ambeth R. Ocampo
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
- Ambeth R. Ocampo
Collection: Reading
Image of Ambeth R. Ocampo
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?
- Ambeth R. Ocampo
Collection: Reading
Image of Jack McDevitt
People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.
- Jack McDevitt
Collection: Reading
Image of Jacques Barzun
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
- Jacques Barzun
Collection: Reading
Image of David Remnick
Mobile is great for us. I think, even though the size of the screen doesn't give everything The New Yorker has to offer, people are spending a lot of time reading - and reading seriously - on the phone.
- David Remnick
Collection: Reading
Image of Gary Shteyngart
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
- Gary Shteyngart
Collection: Reading