Quotes About Reading

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades, you couldn't possibly be cheating.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgement.

When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader.

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Before he was seventeen, Flaubert was reading Victor Hugo, Byron, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Montaigne, and early acquired the conviction that there was no such thing as indecency in true literature. For a while, the literature of the schoolmasters seemed to him not to be literature at all.

Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne zna ?itati, nego onaj koji misli da je sve što pro?ita istina.

Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne umije da ?ita, nego onaj koji misli da je sve ono što pro?ita istina.

Ostati ravnodušan prema knjizi zna?i lakomisleno osiromašiti svoj život.

What is it that frightens you, Councillor Maximov? When you read about Karamzin or Karamzov or whatever his name is, when Karamzin's skull is cracked open like an egg, what is the truth: do you suffer with him, or do you secretly exult behind the arm that swings the axe? You don't answer? Let me tell you then: reading is being the arm and being the axe and being the skull; reading is giving yourself up, not holding yourself at a distance and jeering.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

But a book? You go into it. There's no visual or auditory other than what forms in your own mind. You visualize the characters, the scene, through the words. You, as reader, interpret the tone of voice, the colors, the movement as you physically turn the pages.

A vid comes to you, even at you. It's visual, it's auditory, and can, of course, pull you in. Its purpose is to do just that, draw you into the world you see and hear. But a book? You go into it. There's no visual or auditory other than what forms in your own mind. You visualize the characters, the scene, through the words. You, as reader, interpret the tone of voice, the colors, the movement as you physically turn the pages.