Reading Importance Quotes

Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Reading is not optional.

Reading is more important than writing.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

I would rather be dead than not read

Reading is more important to me than eating.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.