Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Doris Lessing

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Justin Cronin

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

James Fenton

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

Joy Fielding

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

James Gleick

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Jeff Gannon

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

John Green

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

John Hope

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

Jerry B. Jenkins

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Jamaica Kincaid

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

Joseph Kennedy

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

Karin Slaughter

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Umberto Eco

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

Steve Carell

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

Aidan Gillen

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Christopher Golden

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

Curtis Sittenfeld

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

Jimmy Carr