Quotes on Reading

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

All I have learned, I learned from books.