Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

My Reading Life

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

How Reading Changed My Life

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Mason Cooley

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

Penn Jillette

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Ray Bradbury

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

Richard K. Morgan

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Terry Bradshaw

It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

Meg Rosoff

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

Josh Radnor

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.

Liana Liberato

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

Donald Kagan

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

Robert Hass

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Noam Chomsky

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Jamaica Kincaid

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.

Shiloh Fernandez

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard