Quotes About Reading

I thought you liked reading books. I do, but if you only read books because you have to, it becomes much less fun.

if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.

My old man didn't want me to read. He said I'd desert my own people. But I read anyway.

Television was soon to eclipse print's inky cloud with its magnetic flare of electrons, pulling millions from their reading chairs to the viewing couch.

I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

You should never read just for enjoyment. Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

Tenemos que hacer que los libros vuelvan a molar. Si vas a casa de alguien y no tiene libros, no te lo folles.

You should never read just for 'enjoyment.' Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick 'hard books.' Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool!

If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em.

To read without joy is stupid.

Drink deeply from good books.

I am afraid of some math, science, and engineering problems, but I know I can at least read the chapters through and perhaps the fear will go away at some point in the future as I attempt the work and ask the experts.

She'd never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.