Reading Quotes

More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.