Quotes about reading

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I still read fairy tales, and I like them best of all.

Audrey Hepburn

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

David Viscott

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Thomas Carlyle

I’ve always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I’d read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Magic Johnson

Some who will read this, will believe that no one can think and grow rich. They cannot think in terms of riches, because their thought habits have been steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat.

Napoleon Hill

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Margaret Fuller

I sometimes get up at night when I can’t sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, ‘My God, did I write that?

Ray Bradbury