Reading Habits Quotes

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.

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

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 property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.

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

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

Life is a book. Read it.

I can lend you my money not my books.

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

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

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

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

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.

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

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

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

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

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

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

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.

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

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 sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

I have falling in love with reading.

Be great, read great books.

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

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.

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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.

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

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

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

The books. Are unhappy.

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

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.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.

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

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

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

I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.

The world of books captured my heart.

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

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.

Live to read.Read for life.

Drop everithing and read.

School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.

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 gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

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

You ought to learn as best as you can.

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

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

Great literature makes a great life.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

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.