Quotes About Reading

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Katkad kažemo ubi?u se, a potom nastavimo da ?itamo knjigu.

Ils devraient toujours lire le livre à voix haute et claire, se tenir de toutes leurs forces exempts de toute mémoire de l'avoir jamais lu, dans la conviction de n'en connaître rien, et cela chaque soir.

Un hombre que lee, que piensa o que calcula, pertenece a la especie y no al sexo; en sus mejores momentos llega a escapar de lo humano.

quand je vois combien peu de gens lisent L'Iliade d'Homère, je prends plus gaiement mon parti d'être peu lu. (La conversation à Innsbruck)

It's a curse being dad's 'clever' child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers – they're good for you, but you're not expected to enjoy them.

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

eTraduire est la plus amoureuse des lectures.

Traduire est la plus amoureuse des lectures.

Conversation, like good reading, nourishes.

Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their mother's overstuffed chair while she read to them, and they hung over the back of it, and they pinched and plucked at its plushy hide.