Reading Quotes

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening seldom sinful and permanently personal.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

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

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

A good book has no ending.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.

Books think for me.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Read mark learn and inwardly digest.

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.

A Sunday morning spent reading the paper together, maybe drinking some mimosas, alone, and talking until noon. That would be pretty amazing. Married couples with kids will understand.

It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.