Reading Quotes

There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. A...

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it...

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisf...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences...

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fas...

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious...

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

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

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than ...

INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve...

Libraries raised me.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's fathe...

It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn sn...

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don...

But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick small...

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I ...

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. ...

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the wo...

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's ...

No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph rec...

Silence. Montag sat like a carved white stone. The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly...

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to th...

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way...

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way...

The question ‘Why poetry?’ isn’t asking what makes poetry unique among art forms; poetry may indeed ...

...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and...

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and...

The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It...

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting li...

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the e...

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader...

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the...

I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fi...

From an essay on early reading by Robert Pinsky:My favorite reading for many years was the "Alice" b...

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it s...

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or ve...

Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read an...

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like l...

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of ...

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like l...

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart...

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approa...

Reading is more important than writing.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...

So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have re...

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help...

...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abr...

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic messag...

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

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

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present ...

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the imme...

When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds ...

So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more...

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? F...

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each in...

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to rec...

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. ...

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room'...

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but t...

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives ...

A book is not completed till it's read.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in retu...

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout ...

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

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

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

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

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

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

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.