Books Quote by William Winwood Reade

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way…

— Karin Slaughter

“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many…

— William Penn

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in…

— Robert Musil

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in…

— Charles Cumming

In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy…

— Patricia T. O'Conner

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say…

— Isaac Asimov

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

— Raymond Chandler

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

— Richard Peck

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what…

— Paul Auster

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes