84 Quotes About Reading Habit

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever. Thomas Brooks

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. C.s. Lewis

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many. . Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. Jazz Feylynn

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books. Hope Jahren

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. Mark Helprin

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all. Eknath Easwaran

Reading is weightlifting for the brain Tim Green

School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading. Anuradha Bhattacharyya

In great thick dusty books he read And hardly ever went to bed Before it was e Mervyn Peake

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing. Hira Shahid Kazim

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. Francine Prose

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

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations. Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading gives liberty to your mind. Aman Jassal

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

Great literature makes a great life. Lailah Gifty Akita

Lover of books, lover of knowledge. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

I can lend you my money not my books. Amit Kalantri

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated. Lailah Gifty Akita

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners. Unknown

Live to read, read to learn. Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is a treasure of life. Lailah Gifty Akita

[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian. Thomas Brooks

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

The Bible is the greatest book ever written. Lailah Gifty Akita

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't. S.A. Tawks

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 Neil Gaiman

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world. Lailah Gifty Akita

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure. Lailah Gifty Akita

Read good books to improve yourself. Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep reading, Keep learning. Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word. Lailah Gifty Akita

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You ought to learn as best as you can. Lailah Gifty Akita

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. Chloe Thurlow

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

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

The books. Are unhappy. Will Bly

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

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

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

In reading you must pursue to become a creator. Aman Jassal

A man who does not read miss great wisdom. Lailah Gifty Akita

Live to read. Read for life. Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a book. Read it. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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. Alan Bennett

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. Daniel Pennac

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

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. Erri De Luca

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

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

Drop everithing and read. Emma Roberts

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