Reading Quotes

4849 quotes by 2929 authors

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan
For people who are readers, reading is important to them. — Jeff Bezos
For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain. — Jeff Bezos
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I… — Maeve Binchy
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act… — Augustine Birrell
Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And… — Lewis Black
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading… — Mary J. Blige
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is… — Allan Bloom
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to… — Michael Bloomberg
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I… — Andrea Bocelli
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will… — W. E. B. Du Bois
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. — Roberto Bolano
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help. — Elayne Boosler
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. — Alain de Botton
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury

Who Wrote These Reading Quotes

2,929 authors contributed a total of 4,849 Reading Quotes, led by these top contributors: