Quotes About Reading

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed.

You should always read the ingredients in coconut water. It should say 100% coconut water.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

To love one's country, the governance should be good. But politicians are addicts of power. It is because they don't read that they have become so inhuman. Reading is what makes humans, humans.

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

I don't talk about feelings, but I write a lot about feelings. Reading, that's feminine; writing, that's feminine. It is insane - it's really insane - but it still is in me.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

I found Wattpad because I was reading a story on Instagram, actually. They're called 'Imagines,' and they are like little fanfictions that people used to write on Instagram before Wattpad was the place to go.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.