Quotes About Reading

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

An unread book does nobody any good

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.