Quotes
Quotes about Reading
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
Reading is seeing by proxy.
Easy reading is damned hard writing.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time in reading it.
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainworkâreading, writing, thinking--can.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east, Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh at hand, only a very little above, Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades. From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Watching, silently weeps. Weep not, child, Weep not, my darling, With these kisses let me remove your tears, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine. Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter? Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars? Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
What is reading, but silent conversation.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth.
