Quotes About Reading

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.

Exactly. I'm almost done. Last pages." "I shouldn't interrupt, then." "Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader." "I thought rule number one is 'Don't tell the ending.' " "Wait. Rule number one: Hate the movie version." "Probably, all our rules are rule number one. We can get a little hard-core." "Always judge a person by their shelves. To fold or not to fold the pages.

read books—devouring them with the speed of two people famished for words, ideas, and beautiful sentences that make you feel everything.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

I always returned from my travels with new books.

I saw no way out but to dive right in, to a good book.

I wonder how many books you have read?

He who only reads newspapers makes his mind a junkyard.

Every author begins as a reader. So, read yourself into authorship.

a room without boooks like a body without soul

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don't do that with any other artists.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.

Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle's eye!

Books … they're kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.