Reading Quotes

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

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.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

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

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.

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

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.