Quotes About Reading

In fact, the Latin root of the word literacy is the same as for the word intellect: leggere, "to read." The source for the word intellectual also gives us its true meaning: inter-leggere, "to read between." An intellectual is defined by an ability to read between the lines, to analyze and to think critically, to understand things on many levels at the same time.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don't open them.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Read much, but not many books!

What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

A biblioteca foi um meio para eu me desenvolver pela constância do estudo que me consumia de uma a duas horas por dia. [...] A leitura era a única diversão que eu me permitia. Não perdia tempo em tabernas, com jogos ou qualquer outro tipo de futilidade.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find .................for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory, where they will be ready, on some future occasion ............................

Write a book worth reading or live a life worth writing

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.