Quotes About Reading

Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

This was what he had once upon a time expected and hoped of all books that he opened, that each be the one book he required, his own book. For

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'll read. If you don't, you'll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump. He liked them big; he liked them old; he liked them best in many volumes

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

I read.. because one life is not enough

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.