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“Objectivity has been the lodestar for journalism for a long time, and there’s a lot of legitimate reasons that people wanted to have a feeling of fairness and neutrality in the journalism that they’re reading.”
Julia Angwin (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the middle of the seventeenth century the Dutch had written the very first page in the history of European civilization in Australia by stating that there was no good to be done there. William Dampier popularized this idea amongst the English reading public half a century later.”
Manning Clark (1915–1991) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A History of Australia, Vol. 1 (1962), Ch. 2
“I consider myself an amateur tennis player. [...] I really enjoy reading, going for long walks, travelling, seeing new places and enjoying the countryside in a different environment. I like to relax with friends and get to know people who are so different from me, whose gifts I learn from and appreciate greatly.”
Pope Leo XIV (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On Reading An Anthology of Postwar German Poetry America saved me ...I was not crushed under rubble, nor was I beaten along a frozen highway; my children are not dead of postwar hunger; ...I have forced no one into a chamber of death. ...I know enough to refuse to say that life is good, but I act as though it were, and skeptical about love, I survive by the witness of my own.”
Lisel Mueller (1924–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I compare tracking to reading a letter written in a good business hand. You must'nt look at what's under your eye; you must see a lot at once, and keep a general grasp of what's on ahead, besides spotting each track you pass.”
Joseph Furphy (1843–1912) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Such Is Life (1903), Ch. 5
“The heat of the day is spent in reading or working, and about six or seven o’clock, I walk out into a common that lies hard by the house, where a great many young wenches keep sheep and cows and sit in the shade singing of ballads. [...] I talk to them, and find they want nothing to make them the happiest people in the world, but the knowledge that they are so.”
Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695) first seen 1653 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: June 1653
“I’m a Christian, I don’t booze. I don’t take alcohol. My free time is for the Bible and for reading my novels. That’s how I stay. That’s how my life is.”
Alengot Oromait (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I enjoy reading crime fiction and avoid Mills & Boon.”
Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maureen Thelma Watson respond "Which genres do you particularly enjoy reading?And which do you avoid?”
Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What ought to happen at the primary schools is that those teachers must give the foundation in reading, but usually that doesn't happen,”
Louisa Mabe wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like most writers, I usually hold a day job mostly 8-5pm. If in between jobs, I offer proof-reading and copy-editing services for raw manuscripts and also carry out transcriptions and translations.”
Moraa Gitaa wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... Spending hours in libraries, reading old Latin manuscripts and the many brilliant encyclopaedias of mythical creatures: there are few things more wonderful.”
Katherine Rundell (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After reading Jake Sullivan's reviving national American economy, it sounds... like the China model with industrial policies, subsidies and a huge national boost... The China model is about having a unique coordination between government and markets... individualism and communalism...”
Keyu Jin (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a small consultancy firm where I deal with educational issues. Once in a while, I go on speaking engagements. I attend a lot of seminars in and outside the country. I attend development programmes as well because as you age you still have to constantly renew yourself. I still do a lot of reading and writing.”
Sarah Adebisi Sosan (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our population is very young. Where the youth congregate and have a bigger audience are schools. That’s the best place for them to get to interact with reading and writing. That’s one place to start. Make writing clubs as exciting.”
Doreen Baingana (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's really just showing that there is more that you could be enjoying, that you could be learning from, that you could be reading.”
Margaret Busby (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s really just showing that there is more that you could be enjoying, that you could be learning from, that you could be reading. There are things that could open your mind, that could enlighten you that you have to seek out for yourself because it is not being offered within your formal curriculum.”
Margaret Busby (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experimental writing inspires me. I get my ideas from reading, traveling, and talking.”
Barbara Adair wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is picking up but we still have a long way to go. We first of all have to cultivate the habit of reading, before more people would be motivated to write. . Interview question- What is your view on the literary scene in Ghana?”
Farida Nana Efua Bedwei (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was one of the first in this country—I rather think I was quite the first—to hail in print the genius of Mr. Joyce, when, many years ago, he put forth a quiet little volume of short stories called " ." I saw in his bleak and bitter realism a reading of life.”
Gerald Gould (1885–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“s for girls were not hard to find in the 1780s, not least because keeping a school was one of the very few ways in which a woman could hope to earn a respectable living, but accounts of what went on in them make depressing, and sometimes horrifying, reading.”
Claire Tomalin (born 1933) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1st part of quote last part of quote (1st edition 1997)
“When it comes to analysing the pleasures of life, the privilege of approving and disapproving in conversation must be ranked very high, and reading aloud makes it so very harmless an amusement, since no talebearing is involved.”
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From whence then proceeded this his skill? was it from his profound learning, or from much reading of learned Authors concerning that subject? Answ. From neither of both, but from experience, which though it be meanly esteemed of, yet the surest and safest way to judge by.”
Matthew Hopkins (1620–1647) said by 1647 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once a sign of economic power, reading is now the province of those whose time lacks market value.”
Leah Price (born 1970) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women and Reading in Victorian England in The Victorian Web (2013)
“I love reading and visiting museums and galleries, which is also part of my work. Talking with friends over a home-cooked meal is my favorite way to spend an evening.”
Gabeba Baderoon (born 1969) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catching up with Gabeba Baderoon". Research Penn State. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“I write recreational reading material because I feel relaxed when I write. I never think about a specific target group or a 'someone', but just write for people.”
Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a child, performance and reading were my preferred modes of imaginative play. ...I staged lots of plays with my sister and the neighbourhood kids. In my final year of high school, in 1995, I took my first play to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.”
Nadia Davids (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a young woman who loves family and God. I am a workaholic and a perfectionist of sorts. Haha! I love reading, listening to music, and watching movies/series. Career wise, I am an actress, writer, corporate emcee, and the Public Relations Manager at StarTimes DTV Uganda.”
Cleopatra Koheirwe (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is unthinkable that someone in our country could unfurl a banner reading ‘Honour to Benito Mussolini’ without anyone intervening. There is collusion, connivance, the idea that things that go against our Constitution can be done with impunity.”
Maurizio Landini (born 1961) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Guido Ruotolo, Landini: "Governo è connivente con i fascisti. Il contratto di governo esautora il parlamento", michelesantoro.it (May 1, 2019)
“Maxims are hard reading, demanding a constant stretch of the intellectual faculties. Every word must be diligently pondered, every assertion examined in all its bearings, pursued with a keen eye to its remotest consequences, rejected with a philosophic calmness, or treasured up with the same feeling as a "κτημα ες αει" — a "possession to eternity.”
William Maginn (1793–1842) said by 1842 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't you think the sound of men's voices raised in harmony is a holy sound? You know, like the Beach Boys." I was lying on the grass in the July sunlight, reading. The voice was coming from somewhere above my head.”
Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I became more tuned into trees, I began to admire the enormous near the path to the . I even oriented the entrance of the outhouse so that I could gaze at this tall, furrowed tree while sitting there. It was much better than reading .”
Anne LaBastille (1935–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On some level, everything I write is about the fact that we are of the earth and we’ll return to it, and I can’t help it and I don’t want to help it because I think that reading should connect us to something grounding whenever possible. And I think that there’s actually nothing more grounding than realizing that we are dirt temporarily taking on a different form.”
Margaret Killjoy (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often too I wonder at the odds of fortune, which made me (helpless as I am, and fond of peace and reading) the heiress of this mad domain, the sanctuary of unholiness.”
R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work belongs to the people who are reading it. That’s how I hold with the work going away: people have the right to put their interpretation and their meaning into it—it is in the public arena.”
Erna Brodber (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reading Anna Politkovskaya's A Russian Diary in the knowledge of her terrible end – at the hands of an assassin in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment block – it seems to foretell that she could not possibly be allowed to live.”
Jon Snow (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In New York, for example, many Negro Junior High and High School graduates are outrageously poor in spelling, writing, reading and mathematics. Yet they attended integrated schools.”
Manning Johnson (1908–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is something fairly deeply ingrained in our culture, and there probably is a real difference in early reading ability – girls are way ahead.”
Mary Archer (born 1944) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dame Mary Archer talks about women in science, museum cuts – and the husband-shaped elephant in the room in an interview with the Guardian Newspaper, UK. October 23, 2015
“It sounds extraordinary, but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.”
Mary Archer (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve just finished Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, and I’m now reading Nora Webster by Colm Toibin.”
Frances Coady wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't like reading the lives of saints because each one has their own nuances. I prefer doctrine, not imitation.”
Marthe Robin (1902–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d done a lot of reading, and I felt like the North was the place to be,” she said. “There was nothing to do in my hometown that used what I had. I had no freedom. Back in those days, every job you could get had to be with a Black company because no one else was hiring Black women.”
Hettie Simmons Love (1922–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reading to your child is a natural parental activity.”
Sharon Berry wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many dads get emotional reading to their children when they say their greeting to the child at the beginning and end of the recording. It’s a wonderful way to ensure these prisoners remain in contact with their children and families.”
Sharon Berry first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Huffington Post story on Sharon Berry and Storybook Dads on how children will be able to hear their imprisoned dads read them a bedtime story at Christmas. December 15, 2017
“I play lots of board and computer games with a particular interest in strategy games. Reading, with a particular interest in military history. I have lived extensively in Europe and the Middle East. I speak fluent French. I'm an Army veteran with 5 years service. I am also an ultra-light pilot.”
Larry Harris (computer scientist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My way of articulating myself has come with this colonial layer of using English, using written form, and reading texts that are set in global characters.”
Nontsikelelo Mutiti (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the only way is the way human culture has gotten there. We transmit our knowledge via cultural artifacts called texts. It used to be manuscripts, then it was printed text, now it’s electronic text. We put our young people through a lot of reading to absorb the knowledge of our culture. You don’t go out and experience chemistry, you study chemistry.”
Edward Feigenbaum (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's exactly the key thing. We need to understand the math to get it right. And so I spent a lot of time reading John von Neumann, and von Neumann had a lot of really good thoughts about how to do it. And I was amazed people didn't follow up on some of these thoughts. So I decided, well, okay, I'll take the mathematical approach. I'll solve these mathematical problems. Here's how to do it.”
Paul Werbos (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sleep, exercise, prayer, and reading new things.”
Rosalind Picard (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is why as writers we need to give it all, to be open and true. The reader (as a wise traveller) will distinguish between fake and authentic and will only keep on reading if they feel the writers’ is truthful in her story.”
Beatriz Acevedo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source