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Reading Quotes by Famous Authors

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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