Quotes About Reading

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter how we read and what we read.

Of making many books there is no end—So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friendWhen only one is shining in the sky.

I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

As a science, I should say that chart reading shares a pedestal with astrology; but most chart readers are educated men and have too much mental discipline to take astrology seriously.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done. What I wanted to talk about was what I had read.

Jack was lying in bed, very pale, which highlighted the freckles across his nose. He was so surrounded by books I could hardly see him. I was very impressed, because at that point this very young child was reading The World Crisis, by Winston Churchill.

Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.

People who love books never have spare time!

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips—emergency reading—not some demented idea of fun. If I were starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?

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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared...

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

Novels aren't just happy escapes; they are slivers of people's souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?" "I . . . had trouble concentrating." "So you came up on deck," Jasnah said, "to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this to help your concentration?