Quotes About Reading

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.