Douglas Wilson Quotes

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.

To take an hour or two per day while the kids are in school to read really isn't that tough to do once you get into the routine of it.

I am more or less reading all the time.

Slow but steady wins the race.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I've had an unusual career in that I've never had a big break, but the rent always seemed to get paid.

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

My philosophy when I trained was to be 1% better every day.

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

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

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

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower.