Reading Quotes - Page 2

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

They're book addicts.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

A book is not just a collection of words, it is a perception portrayed on blank sheets. You know, getting you the feelings of blowing winds and rains and sun and flowers around, the smiles, the tears, the notional links with the characters and make them all alive, while you read. And that's sure as hell a gruelling task !

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours!

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.