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title: "41 Read Reading Quotes by 38 authors"
description: "Browse 41 Read Reading quotes by 38 authors. Discover the best Read Reading sayings and thoughts."
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> [“You can only learn to read by reading.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/you-can-only-learn-to-read-by-reading/)

[Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/)

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> [Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-okri/don-t-read-what-everyone-else-is-reading-check-them-out-later/)

[Ben Okri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-okri/)

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> [Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/read-and-re-read-re-reading-we-always-find-a-new-book/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“READ, READ, KEEP READING. UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/onwukwe-chimdinma/read-read-keep-reading-until-you-kick-the-bucket/)

Onwukwe Chimdinma

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> [It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alastair-reynolds/it-s-a-novel-experience-to-have-one-of-my-books-read-by-a-reading/)

[Alastair Reynolds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alastair-reynolds/)

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> [When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paolo-bacigalupi/when-i-read-i-m-either-reading-to-learn-or-i-m-reading-to-switch-off/)

[Paolo Bacigalupi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paolo-bacigalupi/)

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> [The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-simplest-way-to-make-sure-that-we-raise-literate-children-is-to/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-molmisa/makikilala-rin-tayo-sa-kinds-of-books-and-other-reading-materials/)

Ronald Molmisa

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> [Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephan-pastis/basically-i-learned-to-read-by-reading-peanuts-just-wanting-to-know/)

[Stephan Pastis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephan-pastis/)

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> [“I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hope-hodgson/i-read-and-in-reading-lifted-the-curtains-of-the-impossible-that/)

[William Hope Hodgson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hope-hodgson/)

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> [I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-pelecanos/i-don-t-judge-anyone-of-any-stripe-by-what-they-read-reading-is/)

[George Pelecanos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-pelecanos/)

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> [Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephan-pastis/basically-i-learned-to-read-by-reading-peanuts-just-wanting-to-know-2/)

[Stephan Pastis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephan-pastis/)

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> [We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-manguel/we-read-to-understand-or-to-begin-to-understand-we-cannot-do-but-to/)

[Alberto Manguel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-manguel/)

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> [“Malaysians don't like to read. If you're reading this, you must not be liking it, or not Malaysian.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-yap/malaysians-don-t-like-to-read-if-you-re-reading-this-you-must-not-be/)

[Brian Yap](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-yap/)

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> [Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christine-leunens/write-something-and-leave-it-aside-so-you-ve-practically-forgotten-it/)

[Christine Leunens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christine-leunens/)

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> [My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohsin-hamid/my-dad-had-this-outlook-it-doesn-t-matter-what-i-want-to-read-reading/)

[Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohsin-hamid/)

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> [I admit my reading time is limited because I can write in the situations and places where people usually read. But reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-connelly/i-admit-my-reading-time-is-limited-because-i-can-write-in-the/)

[Michael Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-connelly/)

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> [When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-scott/when-we-read-about-reading-we-get-to-share-an-experience-that-is/)

[Joanna Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-scott/)

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> [“If you read the books then you have no conclusion you do not dare to kick out this idea or theory "wrong",…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khem-veasna/if-you-read-the-books-then-you-have-no-conclusion-you-do-not-dare-to/)

[Khem Veasna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khem-veasna/)

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> [If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-dicamillo/if-you-sit-down-and-read-with-your-kid-either-having-your-child-read/)

[Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-dicamillo/)

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> [Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mort-walker/comics-have-always-helped-people-to-read-a-lot-of-people-learned-to/)

[Mort Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mort-walker/)

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> [I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sandler/i-think-the-reason-i-don-t-read-is-because-when-i-m-reading-i-feel/)

[Adam Sandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-sandler/)

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> [Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cressida-cowell/attention-spans-are-changing-it-s-very-noticeable-i-am-very-aware/)

[Cressida Cowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cressida-cowell/)

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> [“What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, "Oh, yes, I've read that!,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/what-i-mean-by-reading-is-not-skimming-not-being-able-to-say-as-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“For me, this is what wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their personal identities to the degree that it weaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donalyn-miller/for-me-this-is-what-wild-reading-is-readers-who-incorporate-reading/)

[Donalyn Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donalyn-miller/)

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> [While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/while-we-pay-lip-service-to-the-virtues-of-reading-the-truth-is-that/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [“Labor to work yourself up into a temper correspondent with what you read, for that reading is useless which only enlightens the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-j-foster/labor-to-work-yourself-up-into-a-temper-correspondent-with-what-you/)

[Richard J. Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-j-foster/)

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> [“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/fiction-has-two-uses-firstly-it-s-a-gateway-drug-to-reading-the-drive/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-morpurgo/children-have-to-be-motivated-to-want-to-learn-to-read-reading-must/)

[Michael Morpurgo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-morpurgo/)

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> [Benjamin: I'm glad to hear your witirng experiment inspired you to read more. Reading is the best way to learn to write.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mamahooana/benjamin-i-m-glad-to-hear-your-witirng-experiment-inspired-you-to/)

Mamahooana

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> [Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/too-many-of-our-children-cannot-read-reading-is-the-building-block/)

[George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/)

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> [If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jupiter-hammon/if-there-was-no-bible-it-would-be-no-matter-whether-you-could-read-or/)

[Jupiter Hammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jupiter-hammon/)

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> [I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-isner/i-ve-learned-how-to-sleep-on-airplanes-when-i-m-taking-a-trans/)

[John Isner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-isner/)

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> [“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/we-have-never-even-begun-to-understand-a-people-until-we-have-found/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [“Find a quiet place, and just read. If you’re reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader. Then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-babauta/find-a-quiet-place-and-just-read-if-you-re-reading-an-ebook-clear/)

[Leo Babauta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-babauta/)

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> [I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafe-esquith/i-want-my-students-to-love-to-read-reading-is-not-a-subject-reading/)

[Rafe Esquith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rafe-esquith/)

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> [How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cameron-monaghan/how-i-learned-to-read-was-by-reading-the-captions-on-tv-and-i-grew-up/)

[Cameron Monaghan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cameron-monaghan/)

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> [Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-brodsky/of-course-there-is-no-denying-the-possible-pleasure-of-holing-up-with/)

[Joseph Brodsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-brodsky/)

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> [I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You're only going to be told you're doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-hoult/i-try-not-to-read-about-myself-why-would-reading-about-yourself-be/)

[Nicholas Hoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-hoult/)

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> [“Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-hoeg/back-then-i-could-not-understand-one-word-of-what-i-read-reading-did/)

[Peter Hoeg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-hoeg/)

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                        "text": "Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.",
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                        "text": "“What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, \"Oh, yes, I've read that!,\" but reading again and again, in all sorts of moods, with an increase of delight every time, till the thing read has become a part of your system and goes forth along with you to meet any new experience you may have.”",
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                        "text": "“For me, this is what wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their personal identities to the degree that it weaves into their lives along with everything else that interests them. As teachers and parents, we spend a lot of time gnashing our teeth and complaining that kids don't read. Reading is a big deal to us because we know that reading well unlocks academic, professional, and social opportunities, but for readers themselves, reading is just part of who they are.”",
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                        "text": "While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.",
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                        "text": "“Labor to work yourself up into a temper correspondent with what you read, for that reading is useless which only enlightens the understanding without warming the affections. And therefore intersperse, here and there, earnest aspirations to God for his heat as well as his light.” —John Wesley, “Advice for Spiritual Reading”3”",
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                        "text": "“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it’s hard, because someone’s in trouble and you have to know how it’s all going to end … that’s a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you’re on the road to reading everything. And reading is key. There were noises made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a post-literate world, in which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words are more important than they ever were: we navigate the world with words, and as the world slips onto the web, we need to follow, to communicate and to comprehend what we are reading. People who cannot understand each other cannot exchange ideas, cannot communicate, and translation programs only go so far. The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them. I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. Every now and again it becomes fashionable among some adults to point at a subset of children’s books, a genre, perhaps, or an author, and to declare them bad books, books that children should be stopped from reading. I’ve seen it happen over and over; Enid Blyton was declared a bad author, so was RL Stine, so were dozens of others. Comics have been decried as fostering illiteracy. It’s tosh. It’s snobbery and it’s foolishness. There are no bad authors for children, that children like and want to read and seek out, because every child is different. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories. A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn’t hackneyed and worn out to them. This is the first time the child has encountered it. Do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is a route to other books you may prefer. And not everyone has the same taste as you. Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant. We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung, into literacy. [from, Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming ]”",
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                        "text": "Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.",
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                        "text": "Benjamin: I'm glad to hear your witirng experiment inspired you to read more. Reading is the best way to learn to write. Thank you for reading and commenting.",
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                        "text": "Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.",
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                        "text": "If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.",
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                        "text": "I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages.",
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