Quotes About Reading

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

As Mark Twain supposedly said, a classic is a book that nobody wants to read but everybody wants to have read.

We live in a narcissistic age, which means that many want to have the praise that comes from having read, without the antecedent labor of actually reading.

Read because you want to, not because you need to. Actually, you need to as well, but you need to want to. You also need to want to need to, but I am rapidly getting out of my depth.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

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

It has often been said there's so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

This book is to be read in bed.

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

Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.

One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

You can never, never have too many books

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?