Reading Quotes

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.