Reading Quotes

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

Your presence is poetic, mysterious and deep. If you don’t mind I’d like to read you; uncover the dirty secrets hidden within your pages and fill that missing space between your sheets.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.