Quotes about reading

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.

Nicholas Sparks

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

Winston Churchill

There’s no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Stephen Covey

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Edmund Hillary

Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn’t catch their eye, they won’t bother to read what’s inside.

Marilyn Monroe

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Woodrow Wilson

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it’s that I have a whole lot of common sense. I’ve got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

Michelle Obama

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Woodrow Wilson

Just keep focusing on the work that you’re doing. Focus on what’s in front of you today. And don’t read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly.

Michelle Obama

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson