Reading Quotes

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ...

How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if...

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should ...

The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will...

People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read ...

You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked b...

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around ver...

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one...

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely th...

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so ...

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Mus...

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth ...

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. Bu...

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slight...

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to...

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...

We read to know we are not alone.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ...

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out...

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s...

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his...

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story ful...

We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about whic...

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...

I think I might have something for you today," he says, reaches beneath the counter, and his hand co...

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down her...

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less ...

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") impr...

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years....

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and ...

This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the ...

He truly was a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things and in something to ...

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like anot...

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ...

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose sme...

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself ...

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of...

One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power...

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

We live and breathe words.

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be ...

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the pla...

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. De...

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud...

When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that...

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them ...

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

great books are the ones we need

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Gi...

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding....

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning t...

Books think for me.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of re...

I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an...

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent,...

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was...

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and rob...

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...

That's what this country needs -- more books!

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell hi...

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Mement...

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgott...

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotte...

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They ...

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Arriving back home, I didn’t start to read it. I pretended I didn’t have it, in order to have, later...

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you tha...

Reading to small children is a specialty.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t kn...

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing r...

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too...

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do...

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm...

...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog exce...