Useful Reading Quotes

'Reading is a passion for some people, they can not live without it. It's a very good habit which makes you confident while gaining lots of knowledge. Here are useful quotes about reading to let you know the different people/authors views about it.'



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.
- Maya Angelou

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

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
- Jose Saramago

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- Thomas Merton

What is reading, but silent conversation.
- Charles Lamb

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
- Mike Tyson

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
- Mason Cooley

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
- John Ruskin

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan P. Smith

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
- Robertson Davies

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
- Vivienne Westwood

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
- Liam Neeson

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
- Norah Jones

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
- Benjamin Carson

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
- Samuel Richardson

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
- Keanu Reeves

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
- William Styron

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
- Tim Vine

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Christina Aguilera

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

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
- John Cusack

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
- Arthur Balfour

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
- Adam Sandler

If you like reading, you may also like to read these Book Quotes.

Meaningful Books Quotes

'Books are our real friends. Reading books is really a very good habit which give us knowlegde and broadens our minds. Here are some very meaningful quotes about Books to understand the worth of them.'


This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- Virginia Woolf



If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
- Toni Morrison

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
- Agatha Christie

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
- Pablo Neruda

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Charles Baudelaire



There is no friend as loyal as a book.
- Ernest Hemingway

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
- Groucho Marx

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
- Benjamin Franklin

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
- Ernest Hemingway

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.
- Maya Angelou

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
- Anne Frank

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
- Confucius

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
- Maurice Sendak

You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
- Anonymous

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
- Christopher Morley

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
- Ray Bradbury

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware of the person of one book.
- Thomas Aquinas

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- Saint Augustine

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
- Mike Tyson

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
- Aldous Huxley

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
- William Hazlitt

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
- Princess Diana

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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

A book worth reading is worth buying.
- John Ruskin

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
- Julian Assange

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