Reading Quotes - page 2

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. View quote
Spike Milligan
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere. View quote
Jean Rhys
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. View quote
Harry S. Truman
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. View quote
G. M. Trevelyan
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception. View quote
Amos Oz
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. (Thornton Wilder)
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
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. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A good book should leave you.... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. View quote
William Styron
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. View quote
Edith Sitwell
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. View quote
François Fénelon
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. (Bruce Schneier)
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. View quote
Ray Bradbury
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. View quote
Edvard Munch
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. View quote
Will Rogers
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. View quote
Will Rogers