Reading Quotes

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Read read read Thats all I can say

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.