Reading Book Quotes

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

Books and marriage go ill together.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

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.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.