Reading Quotes

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Steven Spielberg

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

Read good, big important things.

Peggy Noonan

Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.

Kurt Vonnegut

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Stephen King

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

William Shakespeare

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Isaac Disraeli

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine.

Oscar Wilde

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

Moses Hadas

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

William Penn

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Stephen King

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

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

Henry David Thoreau

Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves.

John Green

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson