Quotes About Reading

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

I think you're never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Poetry exists in a relationship so that it can speak to your interior life. That's why I believe that reading is relationship." —Edward Hirsch

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Orwell's fear was that Big Brother would always be watching you. Huxley's dread was that we would be too busy watching Big Brother on TV to care. There is no need to ban books if people are not reading them. If the people are entertained, they will also be docile.

The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from being spirited away.

I know they're not actually talking but the books on my desk seem to whisper "Drop what you're doing! Set aside your poetry! Open us, read us! Read slowly while you're at it. Always read us - every day - before you play.