Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.
I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Christmas is all about festivity, family, being together, reading stories and entertaining one another.
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.
If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!