Reading Quotes

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

~ Goethe

I am a part of all I have read.

~ John Kieran

Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

~ E. B. White

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

~ Anatole France

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

~ Francis Yeats-Brown

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

A good title is the title of a successful book.

~ Raymond Chandler

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

~ Samuel Butler

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

~ William Jovanovich

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

~ Dylan Thomas

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

~ Lome Pierce

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

~ Marcel Proust

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

~ Francis Bacon

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

~ Arthur Helps

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

~ Walt Whitman

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

~ Chinese Proverb

The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

~ Ross Macdonald

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

~ Frank Davies

You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.

~ Kenneth Goldsmith

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

~ David Halberstam

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

~ Jean-Claude Carrière

The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in other writings. I remembered, for example, that for quite some time I tracked down the subject of kissing. I read and read and felt dizzy with the subject, as if I had eaten a psychotropic fruit.

~ Hassan Blasim

You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?

~ Donna Leon

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

~ Deborah Harkness

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

~ Zig Ziglar

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

~ Marianne Williamson

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me.

~ Sharon Draper

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

~ Jon Scieszka

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

~ Rob Thomas

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

~ Jon Scieszka

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

~ Megan Amram

It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

~ Dav Pilkey

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

~ Alan Arkin

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

~ Taylor Swift

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

~ Tavi Gevinson

You can't go wrong with reading the fans and letting them tell you who they like. I think that's really paid off for me in the long run - being down to earth and just really cool with each and every fan that I meet - and they've really supported me through thick and thin.

~ Jeff Hardy

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

~ Lily Collins

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

~ Charles Kuralt

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.

~ Margaret Atwood