Quotes About Reading

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

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

I curl up on my bed, propped against my pillows, books spread across the comforter. Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone. Right now, I'm into the Brontë sisters.

I expect some fast reply, something flirty and flip, but instead he doesn't look up, just reaches for my hand and keeps reading. I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him-just a little-and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it.