Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Reading - Quotes

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. - Walter Mosley

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. - William Godwin

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There’s some hollowness if they don’t. - Philip Hensher

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. - Stephen King

In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small. - Maureen Corrigan

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. - Ezra Pound

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. - Frederick Douglass

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. - David McCullough

Reading ... the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay. - William Styron

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, Discourse a clear Man. - Benjamin Franklin

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on. - Alex Osborn

Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. - Neil Gaiman

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. - Malcom X

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world. - Lin YuTang

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys. - C. S. Lewis

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

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

What is reading but silent conversation. - Walter Savage Landor

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