Quotes About Reading

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Never stop dreaming or reading.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

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

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.