Reading Quotes

One of the most common recommendations accomplished writers make to budding writers is to read, read, read. And not just writing related material. We do not read enough creative writing. In case you have not heard it enough here are more reasons to read more:

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
~ Mortimer J. Adler

“The reading of all good books is like conversation
with the finest men of the past centuries.”
~ Rene Descartes

“Who would call a day spent reading a good day?
But a life spent reading–that is a good life.”
~ Annie Dillard

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My early and invincible love of reading
I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”
~ Edward Gibbon

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,
but to go off with him, and travel in his company.”
~ Andre Gide

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all of the miseries of life.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
~ Mary Wortley Montagu

“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head
instead of with one’s own.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life
from the reading of a book!”
~ Henry David Thoreau