Reading books Quotes · Page 10

“Time spent reading a book, even a bad one, is never wasted.”

— Stewart Stafford

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

— Roy Wood

“Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living.”

— Sarah Johnson

“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn”

— Patty Wiseman

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

“No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.”

— Susan Sontag

“I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.”

— Colleen Hoover

“How could you be alone, when you can find company in reading books?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I…

— Nick Hornby

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant…

— Michel de Montaigne

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think…

— Meg Tilly

“I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able…

— Haidy Santos

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are…

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing…

— Henry Giroux

My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the…

— Steven Berkoff

“I find most of my friends very pathetic, and that's why I rather keep meeting new people. They rather spend their time…

— Robin Sacredfire

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the…

— Killer Mike

“He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine.…

— Glen Duncan

If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but…

— Anna Brackett

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of…

— Richard Baxter

“Celebrities are our heroes and heroines now, discussed the next day over latte or lunch. We have such a strong need to…

— Lisa Scottoline

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.…

— Jim Trelease

My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content…

— Nate Powell

“Americans need to develop a “habit of mind” that includes reading books.”

— David Souter

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

— Denny Hamlin

“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”

— Julie Rugg

“The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened”

— L.J. deVet

“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.”

— Amit Kalantri

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

— Maxim Gorky

“And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.”

— Libba Bray

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”

— Shannon Celebi

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

— Amy Plum