Quotes on Reading

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls

I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.