Quotes about reading-habits

Charles T. Munger - Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

Daniel Pennac - Comme un roman

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.

Carla H. Krueger -

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 -

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

Carla H. Krueger -

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Carla H. Krueger -

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Erri De Luca -

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private pro

Susanna Kearsley - The Splendour Falls

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.

Theodore Roosevelt -

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

Theodore Roosevelt -

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

Michael Krüger -

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Emma Roberts -

Drop everithing and read.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Dare to seek knowledge it is like a search for a valuable treasure.

Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar !

Aman Jassal - Rainbow - the shades of love

Read different to think differently world is already into rat race.

Lailah Gifty Akita - The Wings of Hope: Survivor

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 -

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Aman Jassal - Rainbow - the shades of love

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The world of books captured my heart.

Manoj Arora - From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

Saji Ijiyemi - Don't Die Sitting

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading!

Don Roff -

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.

Chloe Thurlow - Katie in Love

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

Gloria D. Gonsalves -

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Will Bly - Creatures: A Collection of Short Stories

The books. Are unhappy.

Aman Jassal - Rainbow - the shades of love

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Aman Jassal - Rainbow - the shades of love

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Live to read.Read for life.

Carmela Dutra -

Author visits are a fun way to engage kids, and encourage reading!

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Life is a book. Read it.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You ought to learn as best as you can.

Thomas Brooks - Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.

Marie Kondō - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

S.A. Tawks - The Spirit of Pessimism

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

Neil Gaiman -

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 t

Thomas Brooks -

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gna

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Lectures to My Students

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the

C.S. Lewis -

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.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!

Hope Jahren - Lab Girl

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

Mark Helprin - Freddy and Fredericka

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.

Eknath Easwaran - and Meaning

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.

Tim Green -

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

Mervyn Peake - Complete Nonsense

In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was e

Hira Shahid Kazim -

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.

Francine Prose - Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

Roy Peter Clark - Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

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.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

Aman Jassal - Rainbow - the shades of love

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

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