Importance Of Reading Quotes:

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

- A.C. Grayling

topic: Reading, Views, Ideas, Shared Experiences, Reading Experience

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Children, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Inspirational, Education, Book, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Book, Reading, Forever, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Children, Powerful, Reading, Favorite Book, Joy Of Reading

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

topic: Reading, Passion, Knowledge, Knowledge Of The World, Fluency

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Book, Reading, Meals, Writers Reading, American Scholar

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

- S. I. Hayakawa

topic: Life, Book, Reading, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

- Ray Bradbury

source: FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Struggle, Martian Chronicles, Inspirational Reading

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

source: Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

topic: Book, Sea, Lighthouse, Joy Of Reading, Inspiring Book

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

- Clarence Day

topic: Art, Reading, Writing, Joy Of Reading, Art Of Writing

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

- Danielle Steel

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Importance Of Reading

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

source: "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

topic: Life, Happiness, Attitude, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

- Strickland Gillilan

source: Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

topic: Mother, Parenting, Jewels, Mother Son, Special Mother

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

- Eric Ripert

topic: Dream, Reading, Importance, Beautiful Picture, Importance Of Reading

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

- Joseph Brodsky

source: "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

topic: Book, Reading, Burning, Martian Chronicles, Learning To Read

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Children, Thinking, People, Independent Bookstores, Decorating

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

- Isaac D'Israeli

topic: Art, Reading, Writing, Art Of Writing, Book Readers

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Friendship, Education, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Dog

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

- Mary Ellen Chase

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Book, Reading, Healing, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Educational, Book, Reading, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

- Stephen King

topic: Lying, Real, Reading, Growing Knowledge, Importance Of Reading

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

- Jane Bown

topic: Children, Believe, Reading, Need Help, Another Opportunity

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Reading, Past, Able, Importance Of Reading

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin Phelps

source: Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

topic: Book, Reading, Coats, Speed Reading, Old Books

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, Happiness, Clever, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

- Nathan Fillion

topic: Children, Growing Up, Reading, Cramming, Importance Of Reading

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

- Chang-Rae Lee

source: "Chang-rae Lee on War, Alienation, and the Power of Reading". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

topic: Teaching, Reading, Challenges, Importance Of Reading

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

- Kevin Gates

topic: Teacher, Reading, Grandmother, English Teacher, Importance Of Reading