Quotes About Knowledge

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

I am an avid reader.

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

It is much easier to do a film about something that the audience readily knows about - say, cricket. It is much more difficult to write a film based on golf.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I just have never got into reading.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.