Reading Quotes

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.