Reading Quotes

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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.

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.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Reading inspires us to dream.

Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

We need to read history from the source.