Reading Quotes

For me, reading begins at home.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

Cuddle with your children. Don't just read – talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

Parents often ask - how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book that my sons read, we paid them $1. They soon developed a love for reading and forgot all about the money. Amazing but true!

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

By reading great stories, you will renew your mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.

~ Adi Alsaid

A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

In short, we can only learn from our betters.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

~ Aman Jassal

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

~ Anna Quindlen

Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the ‘simple’ A B C to Z.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

Reading was very important, the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

I love reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.

~ Moffat Machingura

A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends, never disappoint them by not studying them frequently!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Reading Is Very Powerful.... It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible.... So READ....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds.

~ Rinsai Rossetti

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

~ Anthony Liccione

Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.

~ J.d. Cunegan

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

~ Carew Papritz

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

~ Jennifer Wilson

Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes, I enjoy a seven-course meal.

~ Carmen Desousa

My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

~ Dr. Seuss

When you have those moments just think of me, call or text me when you feel weak and I will always be there for you. Nothing about this will be easy, life is hard, we just feel it more than most because our souls have been broken and are raw.

~ Raven K. Asher

There's a story behind every Bookworm!

~ Annie Lang

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

~ Daniel Willey

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

~ Jamie L. Harding

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing joyful things, feel lovey if it calls for it…just put your heart and soul into all that you do…then you will be a good writer when you can make whoever reads your work, feel. -Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

The stories I read gives strength to my spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish to continue reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s life.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

~ Roberto Bolaño

He decided to re-read his story from the beginning. As he read he felt as if he was falling forwards into the blank, white spaces of the screen, and the words faded from his consciousness to be replaced completely by the things that they described.

~ K. Valisumbra

She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.

~ S.a. Tawks