Quotation About Reading II

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. ~ Gaston Bachelard


Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ~ Augustine Birrell


Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. ~ Steven Spielberg


People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith


When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ~ Maya Angelou


Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. ~ William Faulkner


When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story.
And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. ~ John Berger


It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. ~ Lord Henry P. Brougham


There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ~ Emilie Buchwald


To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~ Edmund Burke


Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ~ Rufus Choate


Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ~ William Cobbett


You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. ~ Jim Critchfield


Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~ Albert Einstein



Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ~ John Locke


Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. ~ Hazel Rochman