Reading Quotes

"As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."

"Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on. "

Truman Capote

Dreams Quotes

Walk

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Life Quotes

Words

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. "

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

"I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd."

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Until I feared I would lose it I never loved to read. One do does not love breathing.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

If you don't have time to read you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

"To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt... Read More "

Aldous Leonard Huxley

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"As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

Until I feared I would lose it I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even even more.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the tools to write.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

"Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on. "

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. "

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

"I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd."

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Until I feared I would lose it I never loved to read. One do does not love breathing.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

If you don't have time to read you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

"To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt... Read More "

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead ones own.

You are in every line I have ever read.

When all you want to do is read a good book.