Top 96 Quotes About Reading Habits
#1. When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.
Jesmyn Ward
#2. I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.
Michael Wilbon
#3. You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
Terry Pratchett
#4. I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
Felix Dennis
#5. They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.
William Gaddis
#6. You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.
Dan Chaon
#7. My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
Eric Allin Cornell
#8. I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
Paul Theroux
#9. OUT TODAY - THE NEW POCKET BOOK THAT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE AMERICA'S READING HABITS' (from a 1939 Pocket Book advertisement)
Woody Haut
#10. Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella.
Philip Kitcher
#11. St. John had a book in his hand - it was his unsocial custom to read at meals - he closed it and looked up.
Charlotte Bronte
#13. That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.
Susanna Kearsley
#14. You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.
Mortimer J. Adler
#15. Dare to seek knowledge; it is like a search for a valuable treasure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
Theodore Roosevelt
#17. I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
[The Guardian, 15 October 2013]
Neil Gaiman
#18. Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.
Eknath Easwaran
#19. When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. Readers should be open-minded to read anything they fancy regardless of the source. That way we can rid off the writing stereotyped by race or gender.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#22. If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
David Richards
#25. My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
Jazz Feylynn
#26. The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.
Daniel Pennac
#28. People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.
Marie Kondo
#29. Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Paxton Hood
#31. There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
Carla H. Krueger
#32. The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.
Erri De Luca
#33. Reading is weightlifting for the brain
Tim Green
#35. Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
Michael Kruger
#36. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.
Warren Buffett
#38. As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#39. I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.
Kevin Keck
#40. It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.
Danny Brassell
#42. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
C.S. Lewis
#43. Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
Mark Helprin
#44. If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.
Sven Birkerts
#45. I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.
Manoj Arora
#46. She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the pages turned moldy. She read on trains and on buses, which often made her late as she was forever missing her stop.
Alice Hoffman
#48. The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.
Henry Hazlitt
#49. Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.
Saji Ijiyemi
#51. To speak without shame about books we haven't read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it.
Pierre Bayard
#52. You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
Don Roff
#53. Like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal ...
Francis Marion Crawford
#54. I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.
Chloe Thurlow
#55. In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.
- One Day When They Had Settled Down
Mervyn Peake
#58. There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
Carla H. Krueger
#59. I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'
(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)
Peter F. Drucker
#62. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
#63. The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop a self. Activities that require time and careful attention, like serious reading, are at risk; we read less and skim more as the Internet occupies more of our lives.
David Mikics
#65. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.
Roy Peter Clark
#66. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.
Neil Postman
#67. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
Carla H. Krueger
#68. Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.
Aman Jassal
#69. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
Russ Scalzo
#70. What is wrong with your parents? It's just reading. As a parent myself, I can certainly think of worse habits than reading. Like heroin! At least you're not asking them to preorder some heroin!
John Green
#73. The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
Jamie L. Harding
#74. Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.
Aman Jassal
#75. I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life.
Jack Tyler
#76. In reading you must pursue to become a creator.
Aman Jassal
#77. I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.
J.K. Rowling
#78. Author visits are a fun way to engage kids, and encourage reading!
Carmela Dutra
#79. He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.
Glen Duncan
#80. Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
Eudora Welty
#82. I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.
Amit Kalantri
#83. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
Carla H. Krueger
#84. Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
Carla H. Krueger
#85. That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?
Caroline Kepnes
#86. If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
Aman Jassal
#88. Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.
Aman Jassal
#89. Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#90. Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
Phyllis Schlafly
#91. I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
S.A. Tawks
#93. A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.
Aman Jassal
#94. Is your sister ... uh ... hearing impaired?"
"She's just reading.
Jay McLean
#96. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
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