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Reading Quotes

On books, ideas, and a lifelong reading habit.

This collection includes a musician's case for teaching reading and dictation before an instrument, alongside a simple, almost self-deprecating admission of feeling born reading. See Book quotes for more.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Quotes by A. R. Ammons

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

Quotes by Zoe Wanamaker

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Quotes by Zoltan Kodaly

I seemed to have been born reading.

Quotes by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Quotes by Zane Grey

Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.

Quotes by Zara Cox

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Quotes by Yann Martel

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up...

Quotes by Woody Norris

Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

Quotes by Wolf Blitzer

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Quotes by William Styron

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Quotes by William Shatner

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

Quotes by William Penn

My advice to many ICOs is to start reading about startups and focus on the product, customer, and market as soon as the sale is over. And don't get distracted by post-ICO euphoria and the price of ETH or BTC.

Quotes by William Mougayar

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

Quotes by William Mapother

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Quotes by William Kircher

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Quotes by William Gaddis

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

Quotes by William E. Geist

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.

Quotes by William Devane

Frequently Asked Questions

Is reading described as a lifelong love in these quotes?
Definitely — one speaker puts it about as strongly as possible: "I seemed to have been born reading." It suggests reading isn't just a hobby for them, but something that feels innate. For more on passions like this, see our Love quotes.
Do these quotes connect reading to other interests?
Yes — one speaker lists it alongside several passions, "gardens, art, music and reading," adding they have "eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books." Reading here is one part of a broader curious mind.
Is reading described as important in a child's education?
Yes, quite strongly. One quote warns that skipping it has real consequences: teaching an instrument "without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand." For more on personal growth themes like this, see our Book quotes.
Where do good ideas come from, according to these quotes?
For one speaker, mostly from reading: "Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show." It's a reminder that consuming stories and information can directly fuel creativity.
Where can I find more content about the joy of reading?
Our Like and Always collections both touch on the everyday habits people love, reading included.

Others note how eclectic taste in books runs alongside other passions, and how most new ideas tend to surface while reading or watching something else entirely. Browse Love and Always quotes for related themes.