Reading Quotes and Sayings
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Thomas Wolfe
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading makes a full man, writing a precise man.
- Francis Bacon
Reading makes a man full.
- Francis Bacon
Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.
- Emilie and Stephanie
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
- J. Hudson Taylor
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
- Oscar Wilde
The world was hers for the reading.
- Betty Smith
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
~ Jeremy Collier
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- Ray Bradbury
The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
~Lord Chesterfield
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. ~Charles Dudley Warner
Reading means borrowing.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A good book has no ending.
~R.D. Cumming
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- Robert Frost
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
- Stephen King