Quotes About Reading

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God's Word.

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

Read books and be happy.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

READ THE ENTIRE CHAPTER ALOUD ONCE EVERY NIGHT, UNTIL YOU BECOME THOROUGHLY CONVINCED THAT THE PRINCIPLE OF AUTOSUGGESTION IS SOUND, THAT IT WILL ACCOMPLISH FOR YOU ALL THAT HAS BEEN CLAIMED FOR IT. AS YOU READ, UNDERSCORE WITH A PENCIL EVERY SENTENCE WHICH IMPRESSES YOU FAVORABLY.

After closing your day's business, devote a part of the evening to your family and friends, and a part of it to some good book.

read a biography of Mohammed, especially the one by Essad Bey.

Reading should be like eating, we should have the dessert as well as the substantials. It would be a great mistake to eat dessert alone, and it is certainly a mistake to read light, frothy reading matter alone.

Remember, everything you read depresses or elevates, and in proportion as you accustom yourself to read substantial matter so in proportion you will progress in this world, and have a flood of thoughts at your command when requirements come upon you calling for clean-cut expressions.

You will write better letters, you will converse better, you will enjoy social intercourse better if you read helpful reading matter from books and read newspapers very sparingly.

Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing--rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply because they like to read--tend to be frustrated when they can't rapidly scan the text and summarize it in one sentence that connects it to some existing discourse in which they have been involved.

Learning is rooted in repetition and convexity, meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once.

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting).

Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal links, do not try to reverse engineer too much—but if you do, do not make big scientific claims.

minimize time spent reading newspapers

though being forced to read for lack of other activities is not as enjoyable as

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read.

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time