Top 100 Reading Is Quotes
#1. Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.
Graham Kendall
#2. Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.
Walter Moers
#3. Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.
Anna Quindlen
#4. Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
Jose Saramago
#5. Never stop learning and reading is one of the best ways to learn.
Rick Saggese
#6. Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.
Asa Don Brown
#7. The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
J.K. Rowling
#8. The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to feel their own body while they are reading, is this: we live by and through the body, and the body, is a walking contradiction.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#9. Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
Robert Smith
#10. All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
Anna Quindlen
#12. If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
Mr. T
#13. For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.
Diane Schoemperlen
#14. Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.
Blue Balliett
#17. Reading is your window to the world that no one can close for you.
Sara Samarasinghe
#18. I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time
Rafe Esquith
#19. Reading is like bacon you can never get enough.
Me
#21. The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
Andre Maurois
#23. Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
#24. All time spent reading is time well-spent.
W. H. Auden
#25. In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
Bill Bryson
#27. The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
Joseph Epstein
#28. My reading is dead!' Pilar gasped. The little girl held the fourth grade reading book, rigid as a stillborn, across her open palms as if pleading with the pretty gringa teacher to take the burden away.
Janiece Hopper
#29. Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
George W. Bush
#30. Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
Madeleine L'Engle
#31. She was the type of librarian who has "Reading is supposed to be educational, not fun" tattooed somewhere.
Molly Harper
#32. Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.
David Levithan
#34. I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Joe Strummer
#35. For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands.
Nancy Atwell
#36. Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele
#37. All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers.
Anna Quindlen
#38. Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Italo Calvino
#40. If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.
Mark Rubinstein
#41. Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.
Paul Theroux
#43. Summertime, and the reading is easy ... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.
Michael Dirda
#44. Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.
Steven Pressfield
#45. But this is exactly why I read
and don't belong to a book group
because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix.
Peter Orner
#46. The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.
Anna Todd
#47. One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
H.P. Lovecraft
#48. Our reading is always urged on by the instinct to complete what we read, which is, for some reason, one of the most universal and profound of our instincts. You
Julia Briggs
#49. If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.
Laura Holford-Green
#50. Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#51. The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
Umberto Eco
#52. The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.
Mark Van Doren
#53. Reading is more important to me than eating.
John Piper
#54. Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless
Katherine Rundell
#55. Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.
Gary Shteyngart
#56. Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
Gary Shteyngart
#57. Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
#59. To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
Henry Rollins
#61. Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.
John Dufresne
#65. One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you cant read, its going to be hard to realize dreams; its going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read-you ought to listen to her.
George W. Bush
#66. 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
#67. Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.
Chloe Thurlow
#68. Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.
Giuseppe Bianco
#70. Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
Amos Oz
#72. Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study.
John Henry Newman
#73. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
Jim Rohn
#74. What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.
Gerry McGovern
#75. A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
Gary Snyder
#76. Reading is my pleasure; writing is my passion.
Joanne Weck
#78. You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell.
Ann Patchett
#79. Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
Kate Mosse
#80. Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.
Jamie Wyeth
#81. Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
Alan Cheuse
#82. Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love.
Rick Gekoski
#83. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
#84. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Julian Barnes
#86. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca.
#87. Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.
Mike Krieger
#88. The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
Guy Davenport
#89. It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
Kate DiCamillo
#90. I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.
Ruth Reichl
#91. In these economic times, reading is still the only affordable & fun luxury left....
J.d. Rosy
#92. Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
Richard Ford
#93. Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.
Didier Anzieu
#94. Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
Siri Hustvedt
#95. For me, reading is my essential palliative, my daily fix.
Penelope Lively
#96. Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
Caitlin Flanagan
#98. It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
Margaret Atwood
#99. You know you're in a bad patch when the most interesting part of the book you're reading is the acknowledgments page.
Sara Nelson
#100. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
Nicola Griffith
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