Quotes on “reading”

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

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

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]