Reading Quotes

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.