Top 50 Reading Food Quotes
#1. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.
James Salter
#3. Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.
Ron Brackin
#4. I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
Catherynne M Valente
#5. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.
Tig Notaro
#6. I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
Cara Buono
#7. My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.
Eric Stoltz
#8. If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
Lauryn Hill
#9. A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
Andrew Carnegie
#10. Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.
Washington Irving
#11. Buying a book is not enough ... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.
Chrissy Teigen
#13. Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.
Edward Hirsch
#14. I'll mess up sometimes. I'll cry for no reason, burn food because I'm lost in another world while reading, snap at you because I'm having a bad day, and be completely irrational at times, but I'll love you, always. You make me so happy, so needed.
Melody Anne
#17. 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
#18. Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.
Jen Selinsky
#19. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Iris Murdoch
#20. Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki
Nancy Pearl
#21. We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.
Deborah Harkness
#22. If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.
Mary Roach
#23. I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.
John Mackey
#24. The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.
Nicholson Baker
#25. I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.
David Mitchell
#26. One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.
Bee Wilson
#27. Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul
Pope John XXII
#28. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.
Nina Jacobson
#29. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.
Pat Williams
#30. Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#31. When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
Gabrielle Zevin
#32. The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
Dan Barber
#33. It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.
Sydney Smith
#34. I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper.
Raquel Welch
#35. Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.
Virginia Woolf
#36. Books can be viewed as food for the mind
Stop reading and your brain can become anemic
Read junk and your thinking can become malnourished
But handle your diet with books well and your life long learning never stops
Jonathan Frakes
#37. We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment - narrative catechisms.
N.D. Wilson
#38. I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.
Jourdan Dunn
#39. Don't be discouraged or complacent; keep reading it, keep sharing it because it's God's page opened in your life!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.
Nikki Reed
#41. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.
Dean Ornish
#42. I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#43. As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
Isaac Watts
#44. Books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.
Patricia Schroeder
#45. Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. Both my happiness and unhappiness I owe to the love of pleasure; of sex, travel, reading, conversation (hearing oneself talk), food, drink, cigars and lying in warm water.
Cyril Connolly
#48. This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.
John Sladek
#49. The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.
Anthony Bourdain
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