Quotes About Reading

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

I rarely read children's books.

If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

I had high hopes for 'Moonlight,' just off the reaction I had while reading the script.

Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

Read in order to live.

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.