Reading Quotes

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.

How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.

I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.

Life is obsession and so is reading :D

Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers"Mirror on the wall: "He reads

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

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

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.

With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did, and as was the case with all addicts, gratification was the important thing.

I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.

Hurried reading can never be good reading

. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

Novels and gardens, " she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

[When asked about Writing Conferences]"You meet people that will change your life.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Enjoy the read!

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76

We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..

an incredibly beautiful read

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.

Didn't you read the owner's ma