Anne Lamott Quotes

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

I look at every book as a new learning opportunity.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Reading maketh a full man.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.