Reading Quotes - Page 103

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

I'm wondering what to read next.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

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

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

We read often with as much talent as we write.