Quotes About Reading

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabetsoup?

I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

y cuando te dormís y yo sigo leyendo entre cuatro paredes algo ocurre estás aquí dormida y sin embargo me siento acompañado como nunca.

Me quedé en casa y leí no sé cuántas horas, pero sólo revistas. No quiero hacerlo más. Me deja una horrible sensación de tiempo derrochado, algo así como si la estupidez me anestesiara el cerebro.

Y nosotros leemos, y, a partir de esa lectura, creemos, votamos, discutimos, perdemos la memoria, nos olvidamos generosa, cretinamente, de que hoy dicen lo contrario de ayer, que hoy defienden ardorosamente a aquél de quien ayer dijeron pestes, y, lo peor de todo, que hoy ese mismo Aquél acepta, orgulloso y ufano, esa defensa.

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)

A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead.

Leef is beter as skryf, beter as lees, beter as luister of enige ander tweedehandse ervaring.

As for the shop there is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, 'Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.' They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. I have heard the line a thousand times and never, never have I sold a book to any one of those people.

Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.

We always hit the bookstores & libraries in every city and small town, and I learned to tell a lot about a place by the kinds of books that were carried, or the attention given a library. The best I had ever seen was in NYC. The worst in Paoli, Indiana.

The life of a monk ought to be a continuous Lent. . . . This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial" (71). A life of prayer, however, was not to be artificially divorced from a life of service.

The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

This Christmas will be dramatically different for most of us from our Christmases past. But the comfort of reading is a constant. It's a salve for isolation and a haven when we need to escape into someone else's imagination.

His day-to-day life was fairly frivolous and lazy and laid-back. It was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a bunch of cats hanging on his shoulders and maybe reading a book at the same time or doing a crossword puzzle." - Ken Morton, Edward Gorey's first cousin once removed, on Gorey's daily routines.