Quotes about reading
116 quotes from 88 people
Ray Bradbury1920–2012Fahrenheit 451, Coda (1979)
Stanisław Lem1921–2006“Pirx’s Tale” in More Tales of Pirx The Pilot (1983)Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), Episode 11, “The Persistence of Memory”
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote, Part I (1605), Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam)- Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 282
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.
Germaine Greerborn 1939Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989), “Still in Melbourne, January 1987”, p. 70- Germaine Greerborn 1939Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989), “Still in Melbourne, January 1987”, p. 70
- WNWilliam Nicholsonborn 1948Shadowlands (1993)
People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 24.Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
Ben Carsonborn 1951Think Big (1996), p. 22I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X1925–1965The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), Chapter 11, paragraph 59Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Books
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Part 1, Ch. 1- Ray Bradbury1920–2012Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee1926–2016To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 2 (Scout)