Top Reading Quotes

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

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...

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.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

Reading sparks writing.

Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed t...

All I have learned, I learned from books.

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.

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

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.

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.

when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... We c...

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trad...