Top 54 Quotes About Joy Of Reading
#1. I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
James Patterson
#2. I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Christopher Nolan
#3. A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot more invaluable treasures. Gift your child a book - introduce them to the joy of reading.
Jyoti Arora
#4. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
Rubem Alves
#5. That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
Alice Hoffman
#6. Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
Nelson Mandela
#7. The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
Paul Kropp
#9. You can have the joy of reading the stories of incredible happenings, or you can be part of the story
Cassandra Clare
#10. I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.
Katherine Paterson
#11. Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words ... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
Al Pacino
#12. When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.
Julie Anne Peters
#13. The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.
Gayle King
#14. I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.
Peter Hook
#15. Once you learn the joy
of reading a whole world of
discovery opens up and you'll
never look back
Toby Reynolds
#16. The joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
Anna Quindlen
#17. I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
James Lipton
#18. To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
Maya Angelou
#19. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.
Zander Sherman
#20. Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page.
Nestled in a sheaf of paper sleeps an infinity beyond the limits of the universe. Just by opening a single page, we may fly into that infinity.
Tanigawa Nagaru
#21. It's our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child's life.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#22. It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.
Nella Last
#23. Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy ... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.
Charles W. Freeman Jr.
#24. I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
Kate DiCamillo
#25. If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
#26. The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.
Natalie Babbitt
#27. Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.
Anthea Syrokou
#28. We are all children that need nurturing, love and care. So give your inner child that nurturing and love, give yourself back the joy of preparing healthy and nutritious meals, joy of experiencing food without TV, reading, working, rush.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#29. We support all actions that lead to the joy, the fun, the reward, the challenge, and the adventure of reading.
Paul Acampora
#30. Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
Jane Austen
#31. One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.
Jessye Norman
#33. If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Holbrook Jackson
#35. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.
Marsden Hartley
#36. Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#37. Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.
Sanchita Pandey
#38. Another thing to strive for: reading your history should move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#39. Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.
The Atlantic Monthly
#40. I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#41. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#43. Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
Camilla Lackberg
#44. My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.
Jung Chang
#45. The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been. A good book was surprising the first time through, less so the second.
Karen Joy Fowler
#46. It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
Graeme Base
#47. To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia Woolf
#48. This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#49. One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
Ishmael Reed
#50. To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.
H.L. Stephens
#51. Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
#52. The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
Lady Jane Grey
#53. The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.
Harold Bloom
#54. When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.
Carmela Dutra
