Reading Habits Quotes

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar !

Catherynne M. Valente

Drop everithing and read.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Michael Krüger

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

Susanna Kearsley

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

Theodore Roosevelt

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Carla H. Krueger

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Carla H. Krueger

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

Carla H. Krueger

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

Carla H. Krueger

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Charles T. Munger

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. Read it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Live to read.Read for life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have falling in love with reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The books. Are unhappy.

Will Bly

Author visits are a fun way to engage kids, and encourage reading!

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

You ought to learn as best as you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Don Roff

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books captured my heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be great, read great books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Read good books to improve yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I can lend you my money not my books.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great literature makes a great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.

Moffat Machingura

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

Roy Peter Clark

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.

Hira Shahid Kazim

In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was e

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