Quotes About Reading

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

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

I am not a fan of books.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.