Reading Quotes - Page 7

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

  Lin Yutang

  Art, Book, Doe

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

  John le Carre

  Movie, Book, Writing

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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Writing, Historical

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• Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Education, Philosophy

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

  Louis L'Amour

  Motivational, Numbers, Fiction

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.25, Bantam

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Heart, Sleep

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

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• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Past, Men

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

  Marilyn Jager Adams

  Children, Skills, Important

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• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Success, Years

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”

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• Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Mind, Doe, Worth Reading

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.10

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• I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Plato, Book, Blood

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• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Books And Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

  Gillian Anderson

  Change, Good Day, Opportunity

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• Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

  Mary Schmich

  Book, Tickets, Discounts

  "Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 28, 1998.

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Book, Exercise

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• The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Giving, Style

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113

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• Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Flower, Book, Healing

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• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Beautiful, Mean, Alive

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Writing, Literacy

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Wisdom, Fear, Book

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Curiosity, Wells, Book Reading

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• Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

  Barack Obama

  Education, Writing, Skills

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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