Reading Quotes

But it seems to me inevitable that any person who gives thoughtful and imaginative attention to literature must be awakened in his sensibilities, enlarged in his sympathies, sharpened in his critical faculties.

The open door is never behind you; the open door is always before you. Quit looking at your past life and mistakes. Look unto Jesus who is the Author and Perfector of our faith. Your open door is not in the opportunity you missed ten years ago, it is not in some stuffs behind you that you can't get back. You can't gain your access by giving attention to your past life.Your past days are behind you and what God has for you is in front of you. Just pay attention.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6

...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

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.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul.

Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul!

Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined to become is the one that you decide to be. That if you try hard enough you can convince yourself of anything. That having patience doesn’t make you a hero nor does it make you a doormat. I believe that not showing love proves you’re weak and belittling others doesn’t make you strong. That you are never as far away from people as the miles may suggest. That life’s too short to read awful books, listen to terrible music, or be around uninspiring people. I believe that where you start has little impact on where you finish. That sometimes the best thing you can do is walk away. That you can never be overdressed or overeducated. I believe that the cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea. That you should never let your memories be greater than your dreams. And that you should always choose adventure.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

My desire is to embrace, to explore, to dance, to hug, to inspire, to know, to learn, to love, to read, to search, to seek, to share, to write……!

Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards.

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so doing, enters an artificial and complicated world; to know the laws and rules of this world completely and to practice them perfectly, no single human life is long enough. Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. And if anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space in a single house or single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books.

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man’s audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.

Learn to read and a whole new world will open up to you.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.

It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.

You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will.

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.

It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that had a bed that took them places at night.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.