Quotes about Reading
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
— Shonda Rhimes
The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles
— Joseph Brodsky
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.
— Joseph Campbell
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.
— AA Milne
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