Quotes about reading

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

Warren Buffett

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Maya Angelou

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Benjamin Franklin

Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.

Frank Zappa

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

Paulo Coelho

If you eat three times a day you’ll be fed. But if you read three times a day you’ll be wise.

Robin Sharma

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.

William Faulkner

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

Marianne Williamson

I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience-or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.

Henry James

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Albert Einstein