Quotes About Reading

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.