Reading Quotes

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.