Reading Book Quotes

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

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

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

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.

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.

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

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

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

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

The newest books are those that never grow old.