Quotes About Reading

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints

Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

I'd get a lot more sleep if I didnt insist on reading the entire internet every night.

The 'action' began: to me it seemed all the more obscure because in those days, when I read to myself, I used often, while I turned the pages, to dream of something quite different. And to the gaps which this habit made in my knowledge of the story more were added by the fact that when it was Mamma who was reading to me aloud she left all the love-scenes out.

This is obviously disloyal, and authors are a pretty low class. Certainly, it would not be a bad thing to meet them once in a way, for thanks to them, when one reads a book or an article, one can 'read between the lines,' 'unmask' the characters. After all, though, the wisest thing is to stick to dead authors.

Ce que je reproche aux journaux, c'est de nous faire faire attention tous les jours à des choses insignifiantes tandis que nous lisons trois ou quatre fois dans notre vie les livres où il y a des choses essentielles.

I learned that identical emotions do not spring up in the hearts of all men simultaneously, by a pre-established order. Later on I discovered that, whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.