Importance Of Reading Quotes

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

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.

As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

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

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Love of books is the best of all.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

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

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.