Reading Necessity Quotes

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

I must read. I must read. I must read.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I can't exist without books.

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

Since I'm in a band, and I'm not usually in situations where I need to read, it doesn't come up as often, and I don't rely on it as much.