Quotes About Reading

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat.

A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over a man who can't them

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

But now a thought occurs to me. My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. If some other biographies I have read had stopped with the ancestry until a like event occurred, it would have been a felicitous thing, for the reading public. How does it strike you? AWFUL

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1--to tell him you have read one of his books; 2--to tell him you have read all of his books; 3--to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.

Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an author's progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author.

way. And there ain't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage the man who can't read them

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

It is a public journal; I will explain what that is, another time. It is not cloth, it is made of paper; some time I will explain what paper is.  The lines on it are reading matter; and not written by hand, but printed; by and by I will explain what printing is. A thousand of these sheets have been made, all exactly like this, in every minute detail — they can't be told apart.