Reading Quotes

I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

It’s funny because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’