Quotes About Reading

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament not of teaching; to Parnassus there is no primer and nothing that one can learn is ever worth learning.

I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at any rate, so that, if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful books, and what joy can be greater?

You talk books away, he said; why don't you write one? I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.  More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.  Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. Algernon.  Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.  More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Jack.  I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture.  It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private. 

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. 

I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Más de la mitad de la cultura moderna depende de lo que no debería leerse

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But there is no literary public in England for anything except newspapers, primers, and encyclopaedias. Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.

A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.

Read what is here. How could reading a letter harm you? There might even be something in it that pleases you. My secrets are carried, by these letters, over land and sea: even enemies read letters received from their enemies.

As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?

Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description.