Reading Quotes

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I love books. I enjoyed reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is a beautiful paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books is a heavenly paradise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read good books to improve your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read a short story every day.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We find paradise in every library and bookshop.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read, re-read and un-read!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We encounter great souls by reading great books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

~ John Irving

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.

~ Emily Brontë

I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time with and the things we read. Yep. Relationships and reading.

~ Todd Gongwer

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

~ Steve Maraboli

If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

~ Hervé Le Tellier

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

~ Rorke Denver

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.

~ Steve Kendall

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

~ Helen Humphreys

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

~ Alan Bennett

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

~ Julian Barnes

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

~ James Emery White

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

~ Mark Helprin

Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

~ Gabriel Zaid

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

~ Harold Bloom

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

~ Stephen Chbosky

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house? Well, approximately half. Sticky said. To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like - his eyes went up as he calculated - three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths. Only three sevenths? said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. And here I was prepared to be impressed.

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

~ Libba Bray

I remember that story. You have read it four times. Samson shrugged. Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again. But some people treat books that way. Not I!

~ Karen A. Wyle

One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' Will finished. 'Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the course. 'Of course, why one would want to be and fire flock of sheep is another matter entirely,' Will finished.

~ Cassandra Clare

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

~ Albert Einstein

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

~ Lloyd Alexander