Quotes About Reading

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

While attending the carding machines," he would later recall, "I used to place the dictionary on the desk—by which I passed every two minutes in feeding the machine and removing the rolls—and in this way I would have a moment in which to look at a word and read its definition and could then fix it in my memory." As an adult, the boy who practiced with his dictionary would own a personal library of more than four thousand volumes.

As Dr. Zinchenko informed you, I'd like to say a few brief words. Here they are: 'short,' 'memorandum,' and 'underpants.' And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: 'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.' Children?…

And let us pause to remember the immortal words of Dr. Seuss: 'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.'—Groucho Marx.

My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read'.

Tonight, we light the symbolic flashlight of under-the-covers reading to celebrate those page-turners we can never put down, even on a school night. I am assured that our Olympic torch will never reach a temperature of Fahrenheit four fifty-one, something the Lorax, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe were all quite happy to hear.

I like to dip into other people's books, to catch the rhythm of their thinking, as I try to write my own. (...) It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill—getting larger 'cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.

We are losing the majority of the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their potential because of poor reading.

I've always believed that the only reason for salespeople to read this book is to accelerate their success strategy.

As he had all his life, Jack found refuge from his health worries in the power of words and ideas. Reading remained his salvation, and not just the daily newspapers that are the daily fare of most politicians. p108

Prepare, take advice, read the books, then do it your way.

Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

Un écrivain, même habile, n'empêche pas un bon lecteur de lire entre les lignes.

Women over 50 were the first adopters of e-readers, changing the face of book publishing, and they continue to be the number-one group of book buyers.