Quotes About Reading

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.