Quotes About Reading

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there's an emotional trend to what's selling.

We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

May I have a few friends and many books - both true.

Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.

How can I survive without a book to read?

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Read, not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand.

Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

Fall asleep reading a good book and you enter a world of dreams; fall asleep in a film and you miss the end.

But when Herndon took off on some "deep volume," like the writings of Immanuel Kant, Lincoln would wave it away as indigestible.

the Christian monastic Anthony the Abbot referred to "created nature" as a "book," one always at his "disposal" whenever he wanted "to read God's words.