Quotes in the category reading
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John Green
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J.D. Salinger
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John Green
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William Styron
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
C.S. Lewis
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Francis Bacon
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Pat Conroy
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde