Louisa May Alcott Quotes

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Growing up, as a kid, I loved to read. I liked to read books that were above my range. I always tried to aim higher and read difficult books.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

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

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.

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

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

When you say to somebody, "I'd like to recommend a book to you," you're typically talking to a person who is willing to learn, grow, or change.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.