Reading Motivation Quotes

Books are where words live. I read to discover if anybody's home. ~ Tom Van Dyke

In reading you must pursue to become a creator. ~ Aman Jassal

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. ~ Aman Jassal

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ~ Thornton Wilder

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. ~ Carla H. Krueger

We live to read. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader. ~ Aman Jassal

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book. ~ Aman Jassal

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. ~ Aman Jassal

When it's all too stupid out here,
I hide in books. ~ Yousef Alqamoussi

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. ~ Aman Jassal

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I always looked for a place where I could sit in solace and read, and you know what offered me that comfortable solitude? Books. ~ Neeraj Agnihotri

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. ~ Jazz Feylynn

What is it with you and that book?"
Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. ~ Aman Jassal

Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place! ~ Denise Walter McConduit

The bookshelf in my heart holds many titles. So can yours. ~ Sylvia McNicoll

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that they will love. Or try going to a local library for a few hours and just let your kids sift through books that interest them. ~ Melanie Kirk

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A great book is one, which really don't finish when it finishes. ~ Aman Jassal

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books? ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own. ~ Kelseyleigh Reber

The very best authors are no longer with us; so only read books written by dead people. ~ Kevin Ansbro

A book is a drop in the ocean of knowledge, in the ocean of knowledge every reader is drowned in the thoughts of what to read?. ~ Luffina Lourduraj

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure. ~ Atwood H. Townsend

Printed works do not take up mental space simply by virtue of being there; attention must be paid or their content, whether simple or complex, can never be truly assimilated. The willed attention demanded by print is the antithesis of the reflexive distraction encouraged by infotainment media, whether one is talking about the tunes on an iPod, a picture flashing briefly on a home page, a text message, a video game, or the latest offering of "reality" TV. That all of these sources of information and entertainment are capable of simultaneously engendering distraction and absorption accounts for much of their snakelike charm. ~ Susan Jacoby

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. ~ Stanley Schmidt

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone. ~ Terence McKenna

So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing they taught us at Willow Creek: don't write their eulogy, don't try to imagine who they used to be, how they came to be here, how they came to be this. I know, who doesn't do that, right? Who doesn't look at one of those things and just naturally start to wonder? It's like reading the last page of a book ... your imagination just naturally spinning. And that's when you get distracted, get sloppy, let your guard down and end up leaving someone else to wonder what happened to you. ~ Max Brooks

The 'action' began: to me it seemed all the more obscure because in those days, when I read to myself, I used often, while I turned the pages, to dream of something quite different. And to the gaps which this habit made in my knowledge of the story more were added by the fact that when it was Mamma who was reading to me aloud she left all the love-scenes out. ~ Marcel Proust

She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. 'Your eyes are not tractors. They are not meant to pull heavy loads,' he said sternly. ~ Nancy Farmer

Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it. ~ Toni Sorenson

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. ~ Charles Lamb

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense. ~ Edward Norton

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. ~ Frederick Douglass

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will ~ Jack Welch

Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
make contact with reality after a day of making things up. ~ Nora Ephron

They talked about the White Album on the way to school, but just as an excuse to stare at each other's mouths. You'd think they were lip-reading. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that's just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it. ~ Tilicia Haridat

With all your energy and strength, chase your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find your path or the path is already there and you aren't just able to see it. ~ Ackshat Deoli

Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Is this, she wonders, how we'll all survive? ~ Cristina Garcia

Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained all her ideas on life, all her faith, all her ideals and aims and aspirations from books. Books stood between her and reality, and hid from her those deep truths that can never be learnt from even the greatest literary production, but can only be understood after long years of untiring observation and experience. It was in books also that Irene found her ideal of the man she could love. Her hero was an exceedingly complicated character. ~ Aimee Dostoyevsky

...our job sometimes is to divorce ourselves from the fact that I've got to constantly be gifting young people with tools and equip them with - I'm imparting lessons upon them. Sometimes it about, look you hate reading, my job is to figure out how to help you not hate reading. The rest of it we can get to, but I got to figure out how to get you engaged. In order to do that sometimes you got to pull back. Right. You got to put a little grease in the pot. Right. So if that means you've got to have them reading rap lyrics in your class, then that's what it is. If that means you got to have them reading comic books or the athletes reading Sports Illustrated and the sports section in ESPN Magazine, then that's what it is. Our job is not just - it's not to just promote literature, which is what we all do. Our job is to promote literacy and there's a difference. Right. There's a difference. Literacy is what will help them way more than what literature will do. ~ Jason Reynolds

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly. ~ Susan Cain

We are not 'censored' in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To see an image is to react. What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a 'Like' button? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners? ~ Sergio Troncoso

Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.'
It was certainly an interesting theory, ... [but] surely one didn't need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library. ~ Michelle Cooper

One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It's easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems - and to people - without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be. ~ Christian Wiman

Love Me Even More when I Seem Least Deserving... For That is the Very Moment That I Am Most in Need of Your Love. ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition. ~ Erin McKean

May God grant us grace for our daily work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along. ~ Ang Lee

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. ~ Edward Gibbon

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be. ~ Jon Bernthal

Always be true to yourself and follow your dreams! ~ LaDonna M. Cook

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I read about guerrilla warfare and clandestine struggle without having the faintest idea that one day i would go underground. It's kind of funny when i think about it, because reading all that stuff probably has saved my life a million times. ~ Assata Shakur

Basically what you're doing when you're writing fiction is telling a lie, he tells those of us in the seminar; and the psychology of reading dictates that we're willing to buy only what coheres, on some gut level, with what we already believe. ~ David Foster Wallace

The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with something, and Yurii Andreievich stared ahead of him out of the window, as if he were not looking at the snow but were still reading Tonia's letter and as if what flickered past him were not small dry snow crystals but the spaces between the small black letters, white, white, endless, endless. ~ Boris Pasternak

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do. ~ Stormie O'martian

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. ~ Bernard Baruch