Reading Quotes

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

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

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

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

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

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

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Read much, but not many works.

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Spelling is improved when reading is done.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off the game a little bit more and it helps me to be a little bit more focused.

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.

Read, read read. Read everything.