Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 2. Scout compares reading to breathing, something essential for living.
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don’t understand that. Gosh. – Charles M. Schulz
Hope everyone is doing some serious Netflix binging, book reading, group facetiming, bubble bathing, writing, painting, whatever makes u feel sane while isolating and keeping yourselves and others safe. be patient. – Ariane Grande How to stay sane during coronavirus pandemic self-isolation, in Instagram post.
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture. – Henry B. Eyring
It is very annoying – things have been written by people who didn’t know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers. – Hasnat Khan
My first two books, ‘Letters to a Young Brother’ and ‘Letters to a Young Sister,’ were… distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. – Hill Harper
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That’s a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on. – Hannibal Buress
All over the country, they’re reading about me, and the story doesn’t center on me being gay. It’s just about a gay person who is doing his job. – Harvey Milk
When I meet children at book signings, they’ll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they’re telling me how much they enjoy my novels. – Grace Lin
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it. – H. P. Lovecraft
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. – Hugh Mackay
I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart’s Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew. – Gene Weingarten
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That’s what consumer confidence is. – Howard Schultz
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too – be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I’ve decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do. – Helen Oyeyemi
I think for anybody reading the book they’re going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it’s quite hard to shake. – Hugh Dancy
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. – Groucho Marx
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. – Honeysuckle Weeks
The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end! – Geraldine McCaughrean
I have always identified with Joan Didion’s depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading ‘Play It As It Lays,’ ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘The White Album.’ – Henry Rollins
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. – Helen Fisher
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don’t mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber’s film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him. – Greil Marcus
Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening. – Henry Winkler
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. – Hugh Mackay
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G. M. Trevelyan
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. – George Jackson
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. – Harold Ramis
No characters in ‘Stay Close,’ including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer. – Harlan Coben
