Quotes about Reading
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can never have a Christian mind without reading the Scriptures regularly because you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know.
- Kent Hughes
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
- RC Sproul Jr.
I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
- Hillary Clinton
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow books make shallow men.)
- Randy Alcorn
If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It's not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains closed.
- Randy Alcorn