Reading Quotes

Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.