Reading Quotes - Page 5

• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

  Edward Abbey

  Worth Reading, Ifs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Library, Paper, Literacy

  "Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

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• 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

  Wall, Book, Voice

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• He that runs may read.

  William Cowper

  Running, May

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.104

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Book

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• Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Teacher, Men

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Goes On

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.65

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

  Katherine Paterson

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• Books were my pass to personal freedom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Black History Month, Personal Freedom

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• Literature is my Utopia

  Helen Keller

  Book, Literature, Literacy

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Power, Men

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• A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

  Robertson Davies

  Morning, Book, Maturity

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• It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Book, Reading Good Books

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

  Helen Simonson

  Doe, Way

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• No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Age, Fifty

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Space

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• 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

  Funny, Art, Book

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Ears, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Statistics, Worst

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• To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

  Andre Gide

  Motivational, Travel, Ideas

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.105, Routledge

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• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Black

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.198, Grove Press

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• The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Art, Skip

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• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny, Book, Blessing

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• 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

  Inspirational, Beauty, Book

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