Reading Quotes

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

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

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

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

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

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

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.

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

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.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

I even love the smell of books.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

A book is not completed till it's read.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Of course. You get everything from books.