i read to escape reality.

When I have the Bible memorised, then I’ll be able to go and read a couple other books.

Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.

My message for all my readers is: Don’t believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don’t believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called ‘Word Freak,’ which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

Many who resort to crime ultimately can’t read or write.

You should’ve thought of that before becoming a fireman.””Thought!” he said. “Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can’t afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize...

As Luke 24 shows, it’s possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

Generally speaking, books don’t cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

I don’t read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I’m 80.

Butterfly causing a tsunami with on beat of its wing.

If I’d waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It’s how I feel after a good dinner. That’s why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That’s something...

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn’t have a lot of time to read.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

I realise people exist who don’t read. But it’s like I knew there were people who didn’t breathe or eat: I can’t imagine a life like that.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

If I make you read, then I’ll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I’ll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I’ll keep writing.

One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, ‘You must have read this,’ or ‘You must have seen this,’ or ‘Do you listen to this?’...

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

In our fathers’ time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

I’ve heard people say it looks as if I don’t care and I’ve certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don’t think I can change it. I know I’m working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn’t always look that way.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it’s fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics… I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

Just write. That’s my only tip. And read. I guess that’s two.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

I didn’t read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?

I love to read. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a life. It doesn’t mean I’m a nerd.I only love the feeling that, even when you’re back in reality, you still feel like you’re in a different world.

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

One of my comics is read by more people – around 70,000 – than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

The number of books students read…is among the best indicators of student reading development.

I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what’s going on.

Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.