Reading Quotes - page 4

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four. (Nora Ephron)
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. View quote
Rufus Choate
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. View quote
Angela Carter
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. View quote
Mary McCarthy
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. View quote
Jonathan Davis
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)
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk. View quote
John Leguizamo
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. View quote
Don Marquis
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not. View quote
E. B. White
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. View quote
Bruce Schneier
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. (Ray Bradbury)
Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. View quote
Keanu Reeves
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. View quote
Heinrich Heine
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. View quote
V. S. Naipaul