Reading Quotes
Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.
Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?
...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.
Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.