Roger McGuinn Quotes

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

I never stopped reading.

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you... Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I've always been a big reader.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.