Reading Quotes

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

I read part of it all the way through.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.