Reading Quotes

Reading is more important to me than eating.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

My life is a reading list.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Everything that you want, you are already that.