Quotes About Reading

I find television,radio very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

Then he's no use to me. I'm a practical man." "Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime. Everything comes in circles—even Professor Moriarty.

I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair

He has spoiled my night's reading, and that's reason enough, if there were no other, why I should steer clear of him in the future.

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!

P...U...D...D...I...N...G Pudding, said Roger. They've kept some for us. She hasn't finished the word, said Dick. Titty was reading steadily on. H...E...A...D...S...End of word

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read.

reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own

If we are distracted and read thoughtlessly, and then realize that we have indeed taken in all the words, but no concepts.

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them l

You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of its contents.

A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture…

You can apply yourself voluntarily to reading and learning, but you cannot really apply yourself to thinking: thinking have to be kindled, as a fire is by a draught, and kept going by some kind of interest in its object, which may be an objective interest or merely a subjective one.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance.