Do not let reading become a forgotten art

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I’d have been discouraged a long time ago.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it’s simply called Job.

When you write a book for publication, you’re writing it for other people to read.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often speak to me when I’m trying to read.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because...

I think of my books as mainstream and that’s were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

This is unbearable … God. These books she’ll never read. Her Life’s Library.

Read about things that wouldn’t keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

We sometimes received – and I would read – 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I’m into really camp biographies, and I’m a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how...

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy – people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online – but I was talking...

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it’s very clear.

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It’s always changing and moving – doing its...

I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in...

That’s how I prepare for anything – I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I’m a bit of a nerd like that.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New”…

I’m in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author,...

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.

I read; I travel; I become

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There’s something very relatable about comic-book characters. They’re never perfect. They’re flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that...

Read in oreder to live

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don’t enjoy something, I’ll put it down.

I need more raw experience. I’ve read and watched a lot of things, but I haven’t done a lot of things.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

While I’m writing YA, I can’t read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I’m writing YA.

I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able...

When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don’t remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor...

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

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

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

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there...

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. ‘Lamb’s Tales’ from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave’s ‘Golden Treasury.’ These two books, and the ‘Everyman’...

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...