Omar Benson Miller Quotes

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in the Hague. I really enjoyed it, so I've started this one.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

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

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

A Boosh fan bought me an original copy of 'The Jungle Book' - like, the first print from 1894 - so I've just started re-reading that and am really enjoying it. But the last book I read in its entirety was 'Willard and his Bowling Trophies,' by Richard Brautigan, which is amazing.

My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in the morning to finish it.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a copy of the book and read that. My wife had read it and she loves it, so that was a good sounding board. I like her writing style, she's such a page-turner. I enjoyed The Constant Princess as well. I think she's great. The books are very popular with women and I can see why.

... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.