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Call it a leisure activity or an educative hobby, reading is surely a consuming and enjoyable habit. Reading is a hobby that pays back more than you will ever invest on it. The idea of going through thick novels and journals might sound a tedious and boring task to indulge in, especially when you have more colorful and entertaining distractions around. But, the worth you can carry away from a book can be explained only by a person who reads it. These famous reading quotations and sayings will bring forth the essence of incorporating reading as a habit.

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Theodore Roosevelt

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

B. F. Skinner

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

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.

Ezra Pound

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Garrison Keillor

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Octavio Paz

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Billy Graham

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Dylan Thomas

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams

Nowadays, we're more into staying in our rooms and reading Nietzsche.

Jimmy Page

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

John Milton

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Willie Nelson

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Toni Morrison

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Umberto Eco

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Charles de Gaulle

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

William Osler

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Harper Lee

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Spike Lee

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Joan Didion

To read too many books is harmful.

Mao Zedong

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

C.S. Lewis

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

Britney Spears

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

A. C. Benson

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Christina Aguilera

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Virginia Woolf

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi

Oprah Winfrey

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Samuel Johnson

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazine

Richard M. Nixon

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Ho Chi Minh

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Oswald Chambers

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Bono

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Katherine Mansfield

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Andrew Johnson

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Barry Goldwater

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

John Irving

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

Paul Auster

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

Richard Wright

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Ian Mcewan

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Hank Aaron

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Wallace Stevens

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Isaac Asimov

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

Larry David

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Ed Howe

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Carolyn Wells

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Jackson Browne

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Carrie Underwood

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Jacques Barzun

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

Alicia Keys

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

Lil\' Kim

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Charles Kingsley

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

George Washington Carver

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Audrey Hepburn

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

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.

H. P. Lovecraft

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Anthony Burgess

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

F. L. Lucas

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Tallulah Bankhead

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Franklin P. Jones

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

Jerry B. Jenkins

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Hillaire Belloc

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

Wentworth Miller

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