Quotes About Reading

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Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.