Quotes about Reading

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You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story, for each o — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Yeah. Floyd is his batman."His what?"Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."Yo — Robert B. Parker, Mortal Stakes
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and th — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower disc — Henry David Thoreau, Walking
The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years o — Wilkie Collins, Armadale
The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-bo — A.E. Housman, Selected Prose
As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within u — Marcel Proust
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. — Michael Bassey Johnson
Of course. You get everything from books. — Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.", American — Archibald MacLeish
Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I d — Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe ever — Diana Wynne Jones, Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnatio — Thomas Brooks
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. — Michael Marino
...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren — Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his ow — Tiffini Johnson, The Character
But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible thin — David Strorm, How Animals Have Sex: A Guide to the Reproductive Habits of Creatures Great and Small
We awaken by asking the right questions. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his pla — Stefan Zweig, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living. — Eraldo Banovac