Reading Quotes

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education Ö has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

Malcolm X

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Elizabeth Hardwick

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...reading is the creative center of a writer's life...you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments

Joseph Anderson

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

August Hare

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G.M. Trevelyan

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

Christopher Buckley
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