Quotes about reading

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Robin Williams

Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Mike Tyson

I read the Bible every day.

Denzel Washington

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

J. K. Rowling

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn’t see that.

Denzel Washington

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven’t time to read.

David McCullough

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.

Anne Frank

My husband and I read obituaries together more often than we have sex.

Erica Jong

If you can’t read and write you can’t think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don’t know how to read and write. You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Ray Bradbury

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Charles Bukowski