Quotes on “reading”

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Reading is reading - no matter what the material.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Literature is news that stays news.