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Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Bible reading is an education in itself.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.