Quotes About Reading

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

You ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffeeToo bad both are a luxury.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that it is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

By reading the text out loud to an affectionate audience, Hamilton was applying the old speechwriter's trick of writing for the ear as well as the eye, despite the fact that he knew the speech would be printed in a newspaper and not spoken. He was writing for a larger audience: posterity rather than simply this president.

Which means, therefore, that our Bible reading is never just for seeing, never just for learning and doctrine. It is not even just for savoring, if that savoring is thought of in a private way that leaves us unchanged in our relationship with others. No. We read the Bible—we always read the Bible—for the kind of seeing and savoring Christ that transforms us into his likeness.

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.