Quotes about Reading

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty 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.