Quotes About Reading

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

He would study any number of topics and had no real preferences, his many eyes enthusiastically moving back and forth as he read the pages at a steady clip. I don't believe he needed light, or eyes, to read, but I know he liked to mimic what he saw me doing. Perhaps he even thought it was polite to seem to need light, to seem to need eyes.

Others among them lay out under the stars at night and recorded their dreams as if they were transmissions from beyond. As a kind of fiction, it enlivened my reading but was otherwise worthless.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

thousands of books in here, shelved on four different floors. The categories

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?" I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.

I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

It's a wonderful thing to read about other people's lives, but it's important to live your own life too - no matter how challenging that life may sometimes be.

All her life, she'd loved books. She loved the look of them, the smell of them, the sweet weight of them in her arms. Most of all, she loved the feeling she got every time she picked one up-the feeling of holding an entire world in her hands.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

She loved to read and did so quite uncritically, taking each book as a prescription of sorts, an argument for a certain kind of life.

She was not unique, but neither was she alone. Reading might have saved her.

Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.

I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?

Embarrassed someone would see you and think you're capable of reading?" I do have a reputation to maintain." And what a lovely reputation that is.

had what could probably have been classified as a book addiction.

Life is an accumulation of aches. They fill you up and take your breath away and you think you'll never breathe again, but before you know it, you are just words on paper, gone quiet and asleep until someone finds those words and reads them.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.