Reading Quotes

They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another can also re-member. Why would they ever develop language? Why would they ever learn to read and write? How would they know what reading and writing were if they saw them? Or signals? Or numbers? Or anything that we use to communicate? This isn’t just a matter of translating from one language to another. They don’t have a language at all. We used every means we could think of to communicate with them, but they don’t even have the machinery to know we’re signaling. And maybe they’ve been trying to think to us, and they can’t understand why we don’t respond.

~ Orson Scott Card

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

~ Heidi Cullinan

When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titles I could – nearly filled the box. But one of the more eccentric librarians at the internment compound I’d gotten permission to riffle had put up a whole shelf full of cubes of women writers or texts about women. She was convinced nobody could be truly educated unless they’d read them – though nobody I ever met had, except her, maybe. […]

~ Samuel R. Delany

We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others see only the faintest whisper of it, or, in its absence remind us of the Truth. We want our kids to know the one good story so well that when they see Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Frodo, Anne of Green Gables, Arielle, or Sleeping Beauty, they can recognize the strands of Truth and deception in them. Saturating our children in the one good story will enable them to discern Truth and error as it comes to them from the world.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express.

~ Krisangelagb

Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.

~ Love The Stacks Bookstore

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.

~ Aneta Cruz

At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read the books that make us so little, make us a speck of dust or a grain of sand in a galaxy, until we feed our minds with all the knowledge we need, which is infinite in itself.

~ Nema Al-Araby

You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me that I love you, not as cliché as I write it, but in the warmest, deepest, calmest words I could ever read. I love you, like the books say it. And I'll find a better way to say it one day.

~ Nema Al-Araby

Man is what he reads.

~ Joseph Brodsky

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.

~ Denis Parsons Burkitt

Read different to think differently, world is already into rat race.

~ Aman Jassal

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

~ Robert Henri

Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.

~ Orrin Woodward

People stop thinking when they cease to read.

~ Denis Diderot

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938

~ Francis Beauchesne Thornton

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious, you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

~ Harper Lee

I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.

~ Louise Walters

You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience.

~ Salil Jha

The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

~ Carl William Brown

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

~ Amit Kalantri

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

~ Amit Kalantri

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

~ Amit Kalantri

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

~ Amit Kalantri

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be original is not creating your own idea, it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.

~ Kaela Marooney

I write because I'm free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I'm breathing,because I'd go crazy otherwise,because it's who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express my ideas.But most of all, I write for future generations.I write for love. I write to inspire.I write to encourage. I write for me.

~ Nadège Richards

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

~ Unarine Ramaru

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

~ Roxane Gay

Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is a blessing for which young people ought to be exceedingly thankful, when they have wise and kind and sympathising and intelligent friends (parents especially) who know how to guide them to pure sources of instruction from books, so as on one hand to gratify a natural taste for novelty and entertainment, and on the other, to control that taste within proper bounds; taking conscientious care, at all times, to keep from the young that instruction which ‘causeth to err.

~ George E. Sargent

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

~ Theresa Breslin

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Reading is food for the brain.

~ Maribel C. Pagan

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

~ Harley King

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

~ Lemony Snicket

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I’m not normally superstitious, but I’ve even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.

~ Laurie Horowitz