Top Reading Quotes

Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads...

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.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a grea...

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer...

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will eve...

I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finishe...

Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the tea...

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Reading leads to wise ways of living.

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that mat...

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid