Greta Gerwig Quotes

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Read books. They are good for us.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Reading is a huge part of life.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I'm always reading something.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.