Reading Quotes

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

I see no point in reading.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

We become the books we read.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.