Quotes about Reading

Television was soon to eclipse print's inky cloud with its magnetic flare of electrons, pulling millions from their reading chairs to the viewing couch.

I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

Drink deeply from good books.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!