Quotes about reading

The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.

John Ruskin

I haven’t read a newspaper in 20 years. I don’t look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

Eddie Murphy

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Mae West

Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.

William Faulkner

I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn’t just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

Sam Walton

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

John Steinbeck

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

Elvis Presley

I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose – and people who aren’t related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.

Amy Bloom

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Carl Jung