Reading Culture Quotes

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

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

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

Among the earliest modern commodities were printed books … and their shrinking price and increased availability were far more historically momentous than, say, the spread of the internal combustion engine.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.