Reading Quotes

Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

We read to know that we are not alone.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.