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Reading Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.”

Camille Paglia

Literature, Reading, Philosophy, Humor, Wisdom

2. “Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.”

Camille Paglia

Reading, Meaning, Philosophy, Knowledge, Humanity

3. “My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself. We need more dissent and less dogma.”

Camille Paglia

Advice, Thinking, Reading, Freedom, Dissent

4. “A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.”

Andrew Carnegie

Reading, Knowledge, Growth, Learning, Wisdom

5. “I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, “this is not a library!” “OK! I will talk louder, then!””

Mitch Hedberg

Store, Library, Clerk, Humor, Reading

6. “Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!”

Mitch Hedberg

Books, Reading, Perspective, Humor, Learning

7. “He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Originality, Influence, Knowledge, Thought

8. “What is reading, but silent conversation.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Knowledge, Communication, Literature, Reflection

9. “I mean your borrowers of books – those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”

Charles Lamb

Books, Borrowing, Collecting, Reading, Ownership

10. “Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Reflection, Thought

11. “Books which are no books.”

Charles Lamb

Literature, Quality, Criticism, Reading, Writing

12. “When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Movement, Learning, Habits, Reflection

13. “She unbent her mind afterwards – over a book.”

Charles Lamb

Books, Relaxation, Reading, Reflection, Thought

14. “Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”

Charles Lamb

Books, Reading, Attention, Literature, Modernity

15. “I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Thought, Knowledge, Reflection, Books

16. “I love to lose myself in other men’s minds.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Learning, Imagination, Knowledge, Reflection

17. “Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews’s Sermons?”

Charles Lamb

Books, Timing, Reading, Experience, Perception

18. “I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.”

Charles Lamb

Reading, Books, Thought, Escape, Knowledge

19. “A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

Charles Lamb

Books, Reading, Familiarity, Comfort, Experience

20. “Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.”

Charles Lamb

Shakespeare, Literature, Legacy, Reading, Importance

21. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Very early I knew that the only objective in life was to grow.”

Margaret Fuller

Reading, Leadership, Knowledge, Growth, Purpose

22. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

Margaret Fuller

Reading, Learning, Leadership, Knowledge, Growth

23. “I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.”

Steven Wright

Books, Accidents, Wordplay, Humor, Reading

24. “It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.”

Steven Wright

Reading, Writing, Creativity, Inspiration, Process

25. “I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.”

Steven Wright

Books, Reading, Perspective, Humor, Irony

26. “I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader’s Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.”

Steven Wright

Reading, Speed, Technology, Humor, Irony

27. “I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.”

Steven Wright

Humor, Words, Reading, Mystery, Wit

28. “You don’t have to read books. You have to enjoy books.”

Ankur Warikoo

Reading, Enjoyment, Choice, Engagement, Pleasure

29. “To understand the world: read. To understand yourself: write.”

Ankur Warikoo

Reading, Writing, Understanding, Self-discovery, Knowledge

30. “To understand others: read To understand yourself: write”

Ankur Warikoo

Reading, Writing, Understanding, Self-awareness, Empathy

31. “Life is too short to be reading bad books.”

Ankur Warikoo

Life, Time, Quality, Choice, Reading

32. “You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.”

Jimmy Carter

Books, Technology, Religion, Tradition, Reading

33. “I love to read and watch movies.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Reading, Movies, Passion, Leisure, Interest

34. “I love magazines. It’s such McNugget kind of information.”

Scott Adams

Information, Media, Reading, Humor, Society

35. “After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.”

Leonard Cohen

Boredom, Reading, Time, Humor, Books

36. “Lonely people read a great deal, but say little and hear little. Life for them is mysterious; they are mystics and often see the devil where he is not.”

Anton Chekhov

Loneliness, Reading, Mystery, Perception, Isolation

37. “He read like a man afloat on the sea, surrounded by the wreckage of his ship, trying to save his life by desperately clutching first to one fragment and then another.”

Anton Chekhov

Reading, Struggle, Survival, Desperation, Metaphor

38. “Reading is seeing by proxy.”

Herbert Spencer

Reading, Knowledge, Perspective, Learning, Imagination

39. “A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

Books, Reading, Comfort, Learning, Technology

40. “By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

Reading, Discovery, History, Knowledge, Self

41. “Reading is like the sex act. Done privately, and often in bed.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

Reading, Privacy, Intimacy, Experience, Pleasure

42. “At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.”

Herbert Hoover

Education, Stanford, Engineering, Reading, Extracurricular

43. “You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind.”

Seneca

Reading, Knowledge, Wisdom, Learning, Inspiration

44. “Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.”

Alice Walker

Reading, Escapism, Literature, Imagination, Survival

45. “I don’t actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.”

Naval Ravikant

Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Wisdom, Books

46. “Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”

Naval Ravikant

Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Growth, Self-Improvement

47. “I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books.”

Naval Ravikant

Knowledge, Learning, Quality, Reading, Mastery

48. “I would rather read the best hundred books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read every single book out there.”

Naval Ravikant

Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Focus, Wisdom

49. “Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Interruption, Reading, Humor, Love, Frustration

50. “The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Books, Reading, Knowledge, Balance, Obsession

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