Reading Quotes

Reading Quote of the day

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

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

...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...

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

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...

There is no other enjoyment like reading

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.

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.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

Literature is my Utopia

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?

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

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.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

With a book he was regardless of time...

Each book holds an experience and an adven

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.