Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

Philip Yancey

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Ruth Ozeki

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

Sophie Thompson

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

Annalena McAfee

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Barbara Bush

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

Faith Prince

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Helen Dunmore

I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

Hannah Murray

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

James Madison

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Joni Mitchell

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.

Jim Parsons

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

John Millington Synge

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

Karl Urban

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Monica Ali

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

Macaulay Culkin

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Ned Beauman