500 Quotes by Reading

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, What shall I do to be saved?

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.