Reading Literature Quotes:

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

- Walt Disney

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Wisdom, Book, Reading, Inspiring Reading, Book Reading

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Book, Mind, Needs, Books And Reading, Reading Books

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

- Mark Twain

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

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

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Literature, Wells, Great Writing, Libraries Books 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 acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Ruth Rendell

source: Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

topic: Reading, Book, Life Is, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Great Writing, Libraries Books And Reading

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

- Oscar Wilde

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

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

source: Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

- Nicole Krauss

topic: Reading, Literature, Privilege, Reading Literature

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

- Richard Ford

topic: Reading, Literature, Beats, Reading Literature

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

- Wendy Lesser

source: Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.6, Macmillan

topic: Reading, Literature, Way, Reaching Back, Reading Literature

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

source: "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

topic: Reading, Writing, Reflection, Reading Literature

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.

- Greg Mortenson

topic: Girl, Religious, Reading, Reading Literature, Religious Texts

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

- Stephen Greenblatt

source: "Built to Last". www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.

topic: Reading, Literature, Ghost, Reading Literature