Quotes about Reading a Book

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book. Votes: 4

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience. Votes: 4

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. Votes: 4

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. Votes: 4

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Votes: 4

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Votes: 4

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it. Votes: 4

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment. Votes: 4

You're either reading a book or you're not. Votes: 3

You're never alone when you're reading a book. Votes: 3

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still. Votes: 3

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book. Votes: 3

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. Votes: 3

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. Votes: 3

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. Votes: 3

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. Votes: 3

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. Votes: 3

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Votes: 3

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. Votes: 3

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book. Votes: 3

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. Votes: 3

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. Votes: 3

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. Votes: 3

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. Votes: 3

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. Votes: 3

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) Votes: 3

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. Votes: 3

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. Votes: 3

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors. Votes: 3

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. Votes: 3

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. Votes: 3

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. Votes: 3

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. Votes: 3

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. Votes: 3

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Votes: 3

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. Votes: 3

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. Votes: 3

Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish. Votes: 3

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it. Votes: 3

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. Votes: 3

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? Votes: 3

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger. Votes: 3

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving. Votes: 3

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. Votes: 3

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. Votes: 3

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets. Votes: 3

Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. Votes: 3

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work. Votes: 3

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else. Votes: 3

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery. Votes: 3

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first. Votes: 3

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it. Votes: 3

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book. Votes: 3

When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version. Votes: 3

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world. Votes: 3

I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him on isometric paper. It was very bonding. Votes: 3

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters. Votes: 3

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Votes: 3

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. Votes: 3

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. Votes: 3

Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV. Votes: 3

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. Votes: 3

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it. Votes: 3

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved. Votes: 3

I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming. Votes: 3

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up. Votes: 3

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about. Votes: 3

I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online. Votes: 3

Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant. Votes: 3

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory Votes: 3

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off. Votes: 3

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. Votes: 3

I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important. Votes: 3

I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am. Votes: 3

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. Votes: 3

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. Votes: 3

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective. Votes: 3

It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas. Votes: 3

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book. Votes: 3

My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it's difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking. Votes: 3

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy. Votes: 3

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years. Votes: 3

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway. Votes: 3

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea. Votes: 3

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book. Votes: 3

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination. Votes: 3

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos. Votes: 3

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. Votes: 3

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it. Votes: 3

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach. Votes: 3

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk. Votes: 3

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story. Votes: 3

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. Votes: 3

A book worth reading is worth buying. Votes: 2

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Votes: 2

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. Votes: 2

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Votes: 2

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. Votes: 2

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. Votes: 2

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Votes: 2

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Votes: 2

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. Votes: 2

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool. Votes: 2

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. Votes: 2

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older. Votes: 2

The heart is the only book worth reading. Votes: 0

Only one book is worth reading: the heart. Votes: 0

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights. Votes: 0

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces. Votes: 0

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. ... Votes: 0

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. Votes: 0

You live several lives while reading [a good book]. Votes: 0

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. Votes: 0

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. Votes: 0

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. Votes: 0

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. Votes: 0

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. Votes: 0

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. Votes: 0

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading. Votes: 0

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends. Votes: 0

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. Votes: 0

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. Votes: 0

Do not let a book get you in a reading slump Votes: 0

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. Votes: 0

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. Votes: 0

There's so much more to a book than just the reading. Votes: 0

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. Votes: 0

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success Votes: 0

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading. Votes: 0

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. Votes: 0

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. Votes: 0

WE'VE BEEN READING THE MÖTLEY CRÜE BOOK. THATS OUR HOLY BIBLE. Votes: 0

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. Votes: 0

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. Votes: 0

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near. Votes: 0

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to? Votes: 0

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page. Votes: 0

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. Votes: 0

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Votes: 0

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. Votes: 0

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. Votes: 0

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. Votes: 0

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. Votes: 0

What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book. Votes: 0

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. Votes: 0

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. Votes: 0

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. Votes: 0

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled. Votes: 0

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. Votes: 0

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. Votes: 0

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. Votes: 0

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. Votes: 0

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii) Votes: 0

The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. Votes: 0

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. Votes: 0

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. Votes: 0

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. Votes: 0

Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions. Votes: 0

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. Votes: 0

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves. Votes: 0

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality. Votes: 0

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. Votes: 0

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. Votes: 0

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. Votes: 0

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully. Votes: 0

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. Votes: 0

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Votes: 0

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading Votes: 0

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. Votes: 0

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man. Votes: 0

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book. Votes: 0

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. Votes: 0

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. Votes: 0

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book. Votes: 0

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. Votes: 0

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book Votes: 0

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore. Votes: 0

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. Votes: 0

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. Votes: 0

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. Votes: 0

Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. Votes: 0

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Votes: 0

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books. Votes: 0

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. Votes: 0

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. Votes: 0

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. Votes: 0

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline. Votes: 0

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. Votes: 0

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. Votes: 0

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. Votes: 0

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. Votes: 0

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. Votes: 0

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? Votes: 0

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. Votes: 0

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. Votes: 0

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. Votes: 0

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. Votes: 0

You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter. Votes: 0

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. Votes: 0

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change? Votes: 0

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. Votes: 0

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.' Votes: 0

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. Votes: 0

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. Votes: 0

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. Votes: 0

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. Votes: 0

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. Votes: 0

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. Votes: 0

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. Votes: 0

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. Votes: 0

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading. Votes: 0

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. Votes: 0

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. Votes: 0

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. Votes: 0

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. Votes: 0

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek. Votes: 0

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one. Votes: 0

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. Votes: 0

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. Votes: 0

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. Votes: 0

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. Votes: 0

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. Votes: 0

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true. Votes: 0

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. Votes: 0

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. Votes: 0

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. Votes: 0

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. Votes: 0

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. Votes: 0

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop. Votes: 0

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. Votes: 0

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. Votes: 0

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. Votes: 0

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty. Votes: 0

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. Votes: 0

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life. Votes: 0

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read. Votes: 0

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. Votes: 0

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. Votes: 0

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Votes: 0

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book. Votes: 0

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. Votes: 0

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader. Votes: 0

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Votes: 0

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. Votes: 0

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! Votes: 0

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. Votes: 0

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. Votes: 0

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance. Votes: 0

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Votes: 0

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? Votes: 0

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book. Votes: 0

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. Votes: 0

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. Votes: 0

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts. Votes: 0

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. Votes: 0

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind. Votes: 0

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). Votes: 0

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven. Votes: 0

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door)." Votes: 0

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours. Votes: 0

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug. Votes: 0

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Votes: 0

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book. Votes: 0

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. Votes: 0

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about. Votes: 0

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!" Votes: 0

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. Votes: 0

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies. Votes: 0

Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits...of epicness. Votes: 0

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. Votes: 0

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. Votes: 0

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover. Votes: 0

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. Votes: 0

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. Votes: 0

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. Votes: 0

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. Votes: 0

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men. Votes: 0

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. Votes: 0

The moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open. Votes: 0

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about. Votes: 0

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less! Votes: 0

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. Votes: 0

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book. Votes: 0

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects. Votes: 0

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later. Votes: 0

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands. Votes: 0

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author. Votes: 0

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. Votes: 0

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. Votes: 0

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. Votes: 0

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. Votes: 0

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Votes: 0

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. Votes: 0

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know. Votes: 0

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language. Votes: 0

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something. Votes: 0

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. Votes: 0

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already. Votes: 0

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein. Votes: 0

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television. Votes: 0

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. Votes: 0

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.' Votes: 0

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English. Votes: 0

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. Votes: 0

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. Votes: 0

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship. Votes: 0

I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world. Votes: 0

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book. Votes: 0

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. Votes: 0

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view. Votes: 0

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. Votes: 0

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. Votes: 0

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book! Votes: 0

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. Votes: 0

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives. Votes: 0

Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. Votes: 0

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting. Votes: 0

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers. Votes: 0

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. Votes: 0

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me. Votes: 0

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe. Votes: 0

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. Votes: 0

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. Votes: 0