Reading Quotes

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

What a blessing it is to love books.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.