Quotes About Reading

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

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

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

My girlfriend always laughs during sex -- no matter what she's reading.

Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying.

19 th century literature is dead in this country

isolated location. He tried to read a few of the highly stylized scribblings,

Ich glaube, der alte Ferdinand las so viel, damit er nicht mit seiner Frau reden mußte. Immerhin hatten Männer damals noch soviel Autorität, daß niemand ihr Studierzimmer zu betreten wagte. Auf diese Weise wurde mein lieber Schwiegervater ein Gelehrter.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.