Reading Books Quotes

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.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

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.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

i really like reading books

I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or reading books is that we sense that the monetary payment is an extrinsic reward.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.