reading quotes

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

I read poetry to save time.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A home without books is a body without soul.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.