All Quotes

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
‐‐ Mary Schmich

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.
‐‐ George Saunders

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
‐‐ Alan Tudyk

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

Reading is a huge part of life.
‐‐ Daniel Curtis Lee

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
‐‐ Ben Okri

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
‐‐ Alan Cheuse

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is important.
‐‐ John Garfield

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
‐‐ Daniel J. Boorstin

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

Reading is power. Reading is life.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
‐‐ Richard Ford

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
‐‐ Robert Smith

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
‐‐ Erik Larson

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
‐‐ Richard Powers

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
‐‐ Richard Steele

Reading is what people did before YouTube, and I love retro stuff!
‐‐ Toby Turner

Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
‐‐ Babe Ruth

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
‐‐ Ben Okri

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
‐‐ Jean Rhys

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.
‐‐ Janette Rallison

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
‐‐ Paul Westerberg

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
‐‐ Robert Quine

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.
‐‐ Paul LePage

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
‐‐ Chris Hayes

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
‐‐ J. Courtney Sullivan