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Reading Quotes

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

Reading Comfortable Really Until

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

Gail Carson Levine

Time Words Child Reading Learn Big

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

Reading Mad Reason Up Because Nerd

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Me Mom Reading House Grades Two

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Book Reading Enjoy Over Again Use

But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

Music Character Me Fashion Reading

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Day Reading Think Short Long Crisis

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

Work Time Reading Doing Hobby Would

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Work I Am King Parents Reading Name

How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching tons of movies and television. Also, at the same time, I was a pretty hyperactive kid, kind of ADD.

Cameron Monaghan

Age Time Reading Television Young

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.

Support Me Reading Wish Forget Hand

At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.

Great Words Reading Feeling Feelings

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

Reading Thinking Remember Going

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

Reading You Important Kid Stuff

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Malcolm Gladwell

Me Reading You Books Smarter Than

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Music Me Reading Impact Say Movies

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Children Reading Find Dangerous

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Poetry Free Reading You Teach Class

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

Work Hard Work Reading Easy Hard

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Reading Distance Say Fiction Careful

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

Myself Beginning Start Reading You

I highly recommend reading the book 'Confessions Of A Video Vixen.'

Book Reading Video Recommend Highly

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Day Amazing Reading She Over Web

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

Myself Words Reading Trouble Avoid

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