If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, – the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.
It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.
The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
I spend a lot of time reading.
Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.