Emma Watson Quotes

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

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

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Music can be a source of escapism.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

I always like to play. It is useful for me; I know how to regulate myself.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

For me, if I didn't have reading I'd go absolutely crazy. It really helps me to unplug from the whole world, and keep my sanity, and be able to fill my time with something other than technology.

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get through it on a rainy day on the couch.

I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

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.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.