Reading Quotes

Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Practicing yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.