Reading Quotes

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

Theresa Breslin

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

Richard Denney

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Les Brown

I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste.

Chris Stocking

Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.

Dwight L. Moody

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.

Ali Larter

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Harry Mathews

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

B. F. Skinner

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

Daniel Radcliffe

Read to lead in order to succeed.

Habeeb Akande

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

Elias Hicks

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

Oscar Wilde

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Victor J. Banis

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Edward Gibbon

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Harold Bloom

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

Corbin Bleu

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

David Adams Richards

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

Dorothy Hamill