Reading Quotes

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

Love of books is the best of all.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

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

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.