Reading Book Quotes

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.