Quotes about Good Reading

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose. Votes: 4

Good reading makes for damn hard writing. Votes: 2

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. Votes: 2

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. Votes: 2

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Votes: 2

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading. Votes: 2

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. Votes: 2

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading Votes: 2

... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. Votes: 2

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance. Votes: 2

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful. Votes: 2

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read. Votes: 2

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. Votes: 2

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after. Votes: 2

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul Votes: 2

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country. Votes: 2

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities--and perhaps even for one who is not--The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading. Votes: 2

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. Votes: 2

I'm good at reading people. Votes: 0

Reading have got the good factor Votes: 0

Reading is good, action is better. Votes: 0

A good reading strengthens the soul. Votes: 0

Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. Votes: 0

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul. Votes: 0

Ideas can come while reading a good novel. Votes: 0

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails. Votes: 0

Never regret losing time on reading good books Votes: 0

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. Votes: 0

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. Votes: 0

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better. Votes: 0

You live several lives while reading [a good book]. Votes: 0

Reading. That was the sport I was good at. Votes: 0

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. Votes: 0

War makes good history but peace is poor reading. Votes: 0

Reading is very good. And you can quote me! Votes: 0

I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that. Votes: 0

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing. Votes: 0

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good. Votes: 0

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement. Votes: 0

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. Votes: 0

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. Votes: 0

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Votes: 0

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Votes: 0

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. Votes: 0

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! Votes: 0

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones. Votes: 0

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. Votes: 0

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. Votes: 0

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good. Votes: 0

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day Votes: 0

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. Votes: 0

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. Votes: 0

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. Votes: 0

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up. Votes: 0

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Votes: 0

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Votes: 0

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to? Votes: 0

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Votes: 0

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. Votes: 0

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. Votes: 0

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. Votes: 0

I'm good at finding things to do on my own, even if it's just reading. Votes: 0

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies. Votes: 0

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair Votes: 0

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality. Votes: 0

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it. Votes: 0

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while Votes: 0

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good. Votes: 0

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Votes: 0

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress. Votes: 0

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. Votes: 0

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. Votes: 0

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. Votes: 0

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. Votes: 0

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. Votes: 0

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. Votes: 0

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading. Votes: 0

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Votes: 0

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Votes: 0

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. Votes: 0

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Votes: 0

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. Votes: 0

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow. Votes: 0

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun. Votes: 0

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. Votes: 0

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. Votes: 0

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. Votes: 0

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. Votes: 0

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign. Votes: 0

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know. Votes: 0

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. Votes: 0

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. Votes: 0

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Votes: 0

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems. Votes: 0

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. Votes: 0

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Votes: 0

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. Votes: 0

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself. Votes: 0

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. Votes: 0

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. Votes: 0

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Votes: 0

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity Votes: 0

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. Votes: 0

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. Votes: 0

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. Votes: 0

Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. Votes: 0

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. Votes: 0

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. Votes: 0

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. Votes: 0

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that? Votes: 0

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. Votes: 0

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works. Votes: 0

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. Votes: 0

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time. Votes: 0

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. Votes: 0

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. Votes: 0

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. Votes: 0

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on. Votes: 0

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book. Votes: 0

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. Votes: 0

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts. Votes: 0

It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing. Votes: 0

Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own. Votes: 0

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. Votes: 0

I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play. Votes: 0

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. Votes: 0

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. Votes: 0

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic. Votes: 0

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. Votes: 0

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream. Votes: 0

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. Votes: 0

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. Votes: 0

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. Votes: 0

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Votes: 0

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author. Votes: 0

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them. Votes: 0

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. Votes: 0

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever. Votes: 0

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch. Votes: 0

Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling by not reading the news. Votes: 0

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good? Votes: 0

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. Votes: 0

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought. Votes: 0

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me. Votes: 0

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. Votes: 0

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. Votes: 0

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it. Votes: 0

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. Votes: 0

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events. Votes: 0

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work. Votes: 0

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. Votes: 0

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading. Votes: 0

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. Votes: 0

When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.' Votes: 0

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good"”and amazingly underutilized"”resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences. Votes: 0

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading. Votes: 0