Quotes About Reading

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Grosse plodders they were all, that had some learning and reading, but no wit to make use of it.

the sort of books that cost too much unless you got them free.

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.

Read not the word carelessly, but with seriousness and affection; as the oracle of heaven, the well of salvation, the book of life.

Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed. Read the word, not only as a history, but labor to be affected with it. Let it not only inform you, but inflame you.

Get books into your houses, when you have not the spring near you, then get water into your cisterns; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the water of life in them to refresh you. … So when you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.".

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

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least 'hold books in his hand'.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

You read a lot," said the behatted kvetch indicating the two novels he had open. He nodded, because there was no denying it and because he didn't want to put up the ante for a conversation. Books aren't life." No, they're better," he replied and flipped through the thirty-two library cards in his wallet to remove his one credit card to pay. This was twenty-first century vagrancy.

Why read a book? If you read books you'd understand that question is like 'Why Breathe?

And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps," said Serge. "You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where—' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read' . . . This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves.

Diligently practice prayer and lectio divina. When you pray, you speak with God; when you read, God speaks to you." – St. Cyprian

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.