Quotes About Reading

Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin) I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat) Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.

Life without literary studies is death.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."