Reading Quotes
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.
To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.