Quotes About Reading

Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every print run is sold.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading is the fuel - it's inspiring - so I try to keep the tank full. What happens most of the time is I binge read. I will put aside a day or two to do nothing but read.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Labor to work yourself up into a temper correspondent with what you read, for that reading is useless which only enlightens the understanding without warming the affections. And therefore intersperse, here and there, earnest aspirations to God for his heat as well as his light." —John Wesley, "Advice for Spiritual Reading"3

We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.

An intelligent, humble, careful, intensive, straight forward reading of the Bible will direct us into Life in the Kingdom of God.

That's what I like about traveling—you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a good book, and that's enough to qualify as a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you're a bum.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Procrastinators tend to buy self-help books about procrastination, then take them home, put them on a shelf, and never read them.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Yes, she's fine. She's rereading one of your books. There's not many authors she likes, so if there's nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. —Thea Dorn

anyone can open a book. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Only the nonreader fears books.

I read.. because one life is not enough

The big problem was subvocalization, or the sounding out of words in his mind as he read them. He couldn't seem to squelch the need to hear the words as he read.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.