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Quotes About Reading

But always when I was without a book, my soul at once became disturbed, and my thoughts wandered.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
A book is not completed till it's read.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.
~ Salman Rushdie
Free people write books," it said. "Free people publish books. Free people sell books. Free people buy books. Free people read books. In the spirit of America's commitment to free expression we inform the public that this book will be available to readers at bookshops and libraries throughout the country.
~ Salman Rushdie
Reading. That was the sport I was good at.
~ George R. R. Martin
I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.
~ Matthew Perry
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
~ Mason Cooley
Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
~ Albert Einstein
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.
~ Rulon Gardner
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
~ Barton Seaver
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
~ Montesquieu
Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.
~ Emilie and Stephanie
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.
~ Stephen D. Krashen
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.
~ Robert Silverberg
The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.
~ Marilyn Jager Adams
It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
~ Seth Godin
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
~ Brian Tracy
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
~ Bill Gates
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
~ Confucius
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.
~ Marva Collins
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
~ David Cottrell
taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Benim bir kitab?m var, umar?m bize mutluluk getirir.
~ Alexandre Dumas