Quotes About Reading

If you are reading this, you are almost certainly reading it for the wrong reason. But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. Only the immutable facts that I have written this and you are reading it remain important in the end.

Reading is an exercise in empathy. To read is to enter another world in a way different from any other art form.

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them

La mente del lector suele divagar entre el 20 y 40% del tiempo que dedica a la lectura.

A reader's mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

people who read literary fiction (as opposed to popular fiction or nonfiction) were better able to detect another person's emotions, and the theory proposed was that literary fiction engages the reader in a process of decoding the characters' thoughts and motives in a way that popular fiction and nonfiction, being less complex, do not.

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

I spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now - ... - everything I can get my hands on - feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

With the e-reader, the whole book was on the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story.

Nothing in this world compares to writing and being read.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country – we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

All leaders are readers.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.