Reading Quotes

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Jane Austen

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Virginia Woolf

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Anthony Burgess

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Terry Pratchett

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Stephen King

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Caroline Lejeune

Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The place would be better.

Source Unknown

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint. . . . What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, Fe

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

James Burke, The Knowledge Web,

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

Helen E. Haines