Quotes About Reading

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things.

For an article, I only needed to read the first and last paragraphs followed by the initial sentence of each remaining paragraph, writing down pertinent dates and facts as I went. Finally, I had to make sure to read the foot- or endnotes to the article and circle back, because those would point to important information in the text.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

No man has the right to bring up children without surrounding them with books.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Vivir sin leer es peligroso, obliga a conformarse con la vida, y uno puede sentir la tentación de correr riesgos.

Membaca adalah tulang dan sumsum, limpa dan darah bagiku.

I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files

Both books are fun to read, and you learn a lot whichever view you adopt. J. David Archibald's Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

Look at the Sad Lonely People Who Didn't Join a Book Group,

When I began to read, a whole new world opened to me. I became interested in books. I still could not read very well, but each new book made it easier. I did not mind spending many hours, because reading was enjoyment, rather than work. When I reached this point, I accumulated books and read one after another. I did this all through my senior year in high school and the summer following. By the time I really knew my way through a book, I had graduated from high school.