Reading Books Quotes - Page 17

• When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

  Lynn Abbey

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

  Roy Wood

  Music, Book, Reading

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• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  M. H. Abrams

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Reading, Bisexual

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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• What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

  Charlie Trotter

  Book, Reading, Okay

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• I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

  Tony Hillerman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Meg Tilly

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Reading

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• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Book, Reading, Careers

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• You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

  William Lyon Phelps

  New York, Book, Reading

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

  Corbin Bleu

  Book, Reading, Differences

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• I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Reading, Lasts

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• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  Ted Rall

  Book, Reading, Able

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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• Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Reading, Stories

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• You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me."

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Reading, Humble

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.

  Nate Powell

  Daughter, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

  Robert Redford

  Art, War, Book

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.

  Lisa Immordino Vreeland

  Giving Up, Book, Reading

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery, I made a more conscious attempt with The Heavenly Table to do that myself.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Reading, Lines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Growing Up, Book, Reading

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

  Clarence Day

  Book, Reading, Men

  Clarence Day (1920). “The story of the Yale University Press told by a friend”

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Family, Religious, Age

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