Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.
He’s got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he’s reading the blasted things.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
I don’t think of literature as an end in itself. It’s just a way of communicating something.
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn’t be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
A Bible reading laity is a nation’s surest defence against error.