Quotes About Reading

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Every time we open the Bible, let's stop and pray, whether for fifteen seconds or fifteen minutes, asking the Spirit to teach us. When I read the Bible, I want God to talk to my soul.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives. [ Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright , Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]

There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.

Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it's something like a detective novel, when you'd suspect that knowing who had really killed the countess would materially detract from the experience. (It doesn't, and besides, I often can't remember who the murderer was in the first place.)

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

My home was in that pleasant place outside Philadelphia, but I really lived somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.