Reading Quotes

Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

You can’t read about push ups. You gotta do them.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole other world in books.

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?