Quotes About Reading

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough. He reads not to see the world through the eyes of other people but effectively to become other people.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Not having the company of books made me feel even more isolated.

According to the United States Department of Education (DOE), the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)11 reports that only 26 percent of the nation's twelfth graders are proficient in math and only 38 percent are proficient in reading. There is also a twenty-nine percentage point gap between the reading proficiency of white and black twelfth-grade students. And these numbers are unchanged since 2009.12

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In writing, you learn about the mystery of yourself. In reading you learn about the mystery of the world. Do both and you'll learn much.

Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein

If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.

The writer's imagination sets the template for the reader's to take over. The reader is a participant in the imaginative process.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Writing brings the unanticipated act of self-discovery. Reading does, too, for one who's receptive.

I read for pleasure, to expand my world, to learn more, to live outside myself, yet enrich my inner life.

No matter how much you write and do other things, make time to read.

Writing is the gateway to learning about one's self. Reading is the gateway to learning about the world.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.