Top Reading Quotes

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

Reading Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read

(n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

(n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

(n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.

(n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

(n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.

(n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

(a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my...

Mediation on the Scriptures will renew your mind.

For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or s...

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamond...

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses an...

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability...

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to...

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (), anecdotal collections and hi...

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.