Reading Quality Quotes

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Read much, but not too many books.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

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.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

a good reader makes a good book

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the victory of the screen is going to win out. It raises the fundamental question: is the quality of reading and comprehension as good when you read it on a screen as when you read it on a physical paper?

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.