Quotes About Reading

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.