I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Avoid employing unlucky people – throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind

Make it a part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading
that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur’s life a good one, or Thomas Mann’s?

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

I was just reading about Paul Simon in ‘Uncut’, and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it’s interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading

I love the idea of exploring different worlds, whether it’s through reading or actually immersing myself in a new experience

In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

What I have ever understood about a good letter is that it is the one to which the person can always hear with interest and engagement while the other person is just reading it out for the former one.

At such moments her own emotions elevated him till he was as a god, and, as he gazed at her and listened, he seemed gazing on the face of life and reading its deepest secrets. And then, becoming aware of the heights of exquisite sensibility he attained, he decided that this was love and that love was the greatest thing in the world.

I have always enjoyed reading, but I’ve never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the world–how do you tell them all apart? How do you know which one will match your tastes and interests?

I don’t really have a hobby. Is reading a hobby?

In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.

I read constantly. If I don’t have a good book, I’m beside myself.

He had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god, ignoring his earthly origin; the other treated of man as a clod, ignoring his heavensent dreams and divine possibilities.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what.

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I’ve given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn’t waste time or paper on a being you didn’t like. But I think I’ve loved you since we met at your mother’s funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry – until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don’t care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author’s cruelty. And the reader’s sympathy…it takes a mean author to write a good story.

I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn’t get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom — and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

If I couldn’t sleep, I could read.

There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read only once can’t.

Well, I’ve been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there’s no hope

I started reading all these men’s magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you’re supposed to wear, what you’re supposed to have, things you’re supposed to say, and all the exercises you’re supposed to do.

I’ve been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he’s brilliant

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the ’60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

Reading is a journey of the mind

The act of reading is an act of empathy.

I read in all forms: paper, computer, phone, audio.

The moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

Emerson lectured and wrote treaties and essays, and masses of clotted, cabbagey poetry. Reading him is like trying to hack your way through a swamp of creeping verbiage

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

If this were a novel, I’d stop reading right now. I’d throw it across the room.

You tell a kid he doesn’t like to read, and he’ll believe you.

What are you reading?” Owen asks. “Charlotte’s Web,” Liz says. “It’s really sad. One of the main characters just died.” “You ought to read the book from end to beginning,” Owen jokes. “That way, no one dies, and it’s always a happy ending.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Reading is as close as we come to teleportation.

Not every book has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth reading.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Steve walks warily down the street

With his brim pulled way down low

Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet

Machine guns ready to go

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read

I don’t think that anybody has ever seen the real Frank Zappa because being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

I’d begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

Reading is not the same as living, Cass, and you need to live,” she says and throws the apple core into a bin as I think over her words.

Education…has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

We too fresh Got to blame in on Jesus Hashtag blessed, they ain’t ready for me

Read, listen to and associate with positive-minded people.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, “No fishing.”

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

I used to take my short stories to girls’ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books .

This is how grace works; it enters the soul, penetrates the heart, saturates the conscience, abides in the memory, affects the affections, gives understanding to the understanding, and imparts real life to the heart, which is the seat of life.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God’s Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

You are in every line I have ever read.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready.

There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don’t they?

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class

I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

I’ve never known any distress that an hour’s reading didn’t relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions.

Reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.

Reading makes a full man; meditation, a profound man; discourse, a clear man.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

When I want to read a good book I write one.

I never read, I just look at pictures

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!

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly. They’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not know how to interpret what you’re reading

I don’t like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I’m reading.