Quotes on Reading

“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.”

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”

“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.”

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”

“Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. ”

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

“I took a speed-reading course and read in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“Yeah. Floyd is his batman.His what?Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant.You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.”

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.”

“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.”

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

“El buen lector es que tiene casi constantemente la impresión de que no se ha enterado bien.”

“First knowledge is the knowledge of God.”

“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”

“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

“فكر قبل أن تتكلم، واقرأ قبل أن تفكر”

“Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!”

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness.”

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

To read a book is to risk being changed forever.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is a conversation with the past.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and studied less.

The best stories linger long after the last page is turned.

To read is to embark on a journey that can change your perspective.

Reading expands the mind and enriches the soul.

To read poetry is to engage in a dialogue with the soul.