Rex Stout Quotes

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I like to read and understand.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

Kids who read are bright.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.