Reading Quotes

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

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.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Of course. You get everything from books.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

The man who never reads lives only one.

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.