Quotes about Reading

All I have learned, I learned from books.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.

I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned to take refuge behind books, to become, as my mother and father called me, 'the absentminded professor-' They screamed at me, but I couldn't hear. I was reading. I was writing. I was safe.

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important - especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

There was indeed a " frightful lot" of books. The four walls of the library were plastered with them from floor to ceiling, save only where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even though an illiterate one.