Reading Quotes

Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Childhood reading is so important.

Most of my reading is rereading.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

Home is where your books are.

I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

I think the reason we might hesitate to pay cash to students for doing well on tests or getting good grades or reading books is that we sense that the monetary payment is an extrinsic reward.

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

i really like reading books

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you,' but that's part of my charm.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

And when you finish reading, read some more.

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.