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Most Famous Reading Quotes of All Time!

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I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Quotes by James Patterson

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation...

Quotes by James P. Carse

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.

Quotes by James Meade

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Quotes by James Madison

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

James Joyce

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

Quotes by James Holzhauer

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

Quotes by James Howe

Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.

Quotes by James Heckman

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Quotes by James Earl Jones

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're...

Quotes by James Fenton

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading...

Quotes by James Fenton

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

Quotes by James Fenton

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it,...

Quotes by James Blaylock

I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.

Quotes by James Bernard Frost

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

Quotes by Jada Pinkett Smith

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.

Quotes by Jacques Plante

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Quotes by Jacques Derrida

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

Quotes by Jacob Young

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.

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