Top 48 One Who Reads Quotes
#1. No one who reads can ever be bored.
Ann Hood
#2. There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
Clifton Fadiman
#3. Live in such a way no one who reads your obituary will be surprised you're a Christian.
Darrell Case
#4. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour
#5. Come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely ...
David Mitchell
#6. A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#7. Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
Alexandra David-Neel
#8. Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
Kabir
#10. A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
Siri Hustvedt
#12. A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sydney J. Harris
#13. A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.
Rikki Ducornet
#15. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, h for the time is near.
Anonymous
#16. Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.
Mohammed Dib
#17. To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R R Martin
#19. I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning.
Adam Ross
#20. The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.
Woodrow Wilson
#21. May God deliver us from the one-sided Christian who reads only the New Testament and talks against the Old!
D.L. Moody
#22. Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#23. Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'
Michael Morpurgo
#24. Any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.
Virginia Woolf
#25. 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Jerome Charyn
#26. The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
Elizabeth Kenny
#27. To the one who views from a larger perspective ... everything is a blessing.
Vivian Amis
#28. A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
Judith Butler
#29. He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and who is at last alone.
Muriel Spark
#30. Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.
Carrie Chapman Catt
#31. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once ...
James Joyce
#32. There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.
William T. Vollmann
#33. A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You are a writer.
Uma Nnenna
#34. A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
Deanna Vasquez
#35. Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Roger Ebert
#36. Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.
Wallace Stegner
#39. The wife reads about something called "the wayward fog" on the Internet. The one who has the affair becomes enveloped in it. His old life and wife become unbearably irritating. His possible new life seems a shimmering dream. All of this has to do with chemicals in the brain, allegedly.
Jenny Offill
#40. Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.
Kim Addonizio
#41. A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.
Laura Vazquez
#42. I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Ron Paul
#43. The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J.M. Coetzee
#44. A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.
George R R Martin
#45. The banner waved by the religious leaders reads; do not upset my world! Jesus is one who comes to call an about face and reverse the curse. Jesus call is not half way or three quarters; it is a complete and utter abandonment to his Lordship. Will the Pharisees and Herodians submit to Jesus Lordship?
Jonah Books
#46. To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the boy who reads me books. He is the one who teaches me how to touch.
Victoria Schwab
#48. One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
Garrison Keillor
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