Reading Quotes
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
