Reading Quotes

"I read a lot of books and I've read a lot about how to understand and interpret body language. I've studied that."

"I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see."

"I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books."

"I seemed to have been born reading."

"I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up."

“Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

“I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.”

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider."

Francis Bacon

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Joseph Addison

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

Voltaire

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

George R. R. Martin

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

Margaret Fuller

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

Frederick Douglass

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."

Mary McLeod Bethune

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

Stephen King

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

Octavio Paz

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

Albert Einstein

“You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”

“The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.”

“Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to "Be Prepared" to meet them.”