Quotes about reading

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.

Read not to contradict and confute nor to believe and take for granted nor to find talk and discourse but to weigh and consider.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes he knew little of the life of men in the past he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

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

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

I do not have more information after reading a poem I have more experience.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read the living ones can use the money.

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes I enjoy a seven-course meal.

Reading was very important the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Everybody loves to hate a sinner reading stories about them makes people feel better about themselves.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic it is not for everybody it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities it keeps your avatar strong.

To be original is not creating your own idea it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.

Fiction can do more than entertain you it can change you

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression they exist where a word has never intruded.

She had a grocer's faith in books they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

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

I do not read a book I hold a conversation with the author.

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare.

So much of one's life was spent reading it made sense not to do it alone.

You may have tangible wealth untold caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.

Reading Plato should be easy understanding Plato can be difficult.

Every book was a door every page a new place to hide.

Reading is for pleasure it’s not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it.

Punctuation are like road signs without them we just may get lost...

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull find out where it takes you.

The survival spirit either read or write a story.

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are depressed, I felt that I'm not the only one. I also felt that how many people must be feeling suffocated to fight this battle all alone. I just wanted to reach out and tell them that even I'm like you, and it's okay if you feel like that.

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy or something.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read there are only children who have not found the right book.

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

He loved books books are cold but safe friends.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

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You have the capacity to do the work.

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because what if they were right, and because sometimes a great loneliness welled up in her and threatened all the dams she built to hold it back. You couldn't cure loneliness by wallowing in it, up above the world, on an island removed from everything. She knew that. But she had such a hard time with all the c

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.

In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was disturbing. Reading was an affirmation of being alone, of being separate, trapped. Books were like oubliettes. Her preference was for company, the tactile world, atoms.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts." -Bob Proctor

So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. The

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.