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| Alla tror antagligen att jag är en nymfoman, att jag är sexuellt omättlig, men sanningen är att jag hellre läser en bok. | Madonna (1958-) |
| För den som läser, finns ingen gräns för antalet liv som går att leva, eftersom skönlitteratur, biografier och historia erbjuder ett oändligt antal liv från många delar av världen och från alla tider. | Louis L'Amour |
| Läs för att leva. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| Man ska alltid tro på det tidningarna skriver, det gör dem mer intressanta. | Rose McCaulay |
| Män med makt har inte tid att läsa men män som inte läser är olämpliga makthavare. | Michael Foot (1913-) |
| Ordblind: O.K. Men ordfattig: Nej. Hvor der er hjerne, er der en vej. | Benny Andersen |
| Selv om man egentlig ikke er spor blind, kan man godt være temmelig ordblind. | Benny Andersen |
| Analfabeter kan bedst læse mellem linjerne. | Peter Benary |
| Man kan evaluere læsning... Men hvordan måles læseoplevelsen? | Thorkild Thejsen |
| Jeg inddeler alle læsere i 2 grupper: de, der læser for at huske og de, der læser for at glemme. | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. | Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) |
| Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought | Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875) |
| A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. | Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) |
| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. | August Hare |
| Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. | Charles Scribner, Jr. |
| There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. | Clarence Day (1874-1935) |
| They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here. | David Diaz (1976-) |
| It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little | Denis Parsons Burkitt |
| You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. | E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) |
| What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it | Elizabeth Drew (1935-) |
| When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. | Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) |
| If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all | Francois Fenelon |
| "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. | Francois Muriac |
| Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. | Guy Davenport |
| The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interest them, and sometimes it's an ad. | Howard Luck Gossage |
| The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality | Irving Babbit |
| The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. | Irving Howe (1920-1993) |
| If it is true that every Cuban knows how to read and write, it is likewise true that every Cuban has nothing to read and must be very cautious about what he writes | Jacobo Timmerman |
| Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure | Jane Brody (1941-) |
| Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. | Jean Rhys (1894-1979) |
| Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. | John Witherspoon (1723-) |
| The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. | Jr. Kingman Brewster (1919-1988) |
| For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. | Louis L'Amour |
| We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35-95) |
| Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| [Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. | Rhoda Koenig |
| He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. | Richard Darman |
| There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. | Richard Usborne |
| Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading | Rufus Choate (1799-1859) |
| In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. | S. I. Hayakawa |
| I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful. | W. Averell Harriman |
| Hard writing makes easy reading. | Wallace Stegner (1909-) |
| A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints | Wilfred Peterson |
| Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. | William H. Gass |
| The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them. | Anatole Broyard |
| The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. | Anatole Broyard |
| Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. | Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) |
| Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. | Babe Ruth (1895-1948) |
| Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. | Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) |
| A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. | Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-) |
| There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!' | Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-) |
| Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. | David Viscott |
| The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| While we read history we make history. | George William Curtis (1824-1892) |
| When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. | Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997) |
| The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. | Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) |
| Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. | Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) |
| I read part of it all the way through. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. | Spike Milligan (1918-2002) |
| I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
| When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before | Cliff Fadiman |
| The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. | Charles Scribner, Jr. |
| We read to know we are not alone. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write | Epictetus (55-135) |
| When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. | Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) |
| A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints | Wilfred Peterson |
| On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Read in order to live. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| No two persons ever read the same book. | Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) |
| No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one | Robert Byrne (1930-) |
| After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| Jeg tog et kursus i hurtiglæsning og kunne læse "Krig og fred" på 20 minutter. Den handler om Rusland. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Read much, but not many books. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before | Cliff Fadiman |
| Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed. | Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-) |
| I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. | Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) |
| Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. | Eric Pio |
| If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Reading maketh a full man. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. | Gloria Steinem (1935-) |
| For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. | Gloria Steinem (1935-) |
| Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. | Guy Davenport |
| Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. | Horace Mann (1796-1859) |
| He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books | Jack Handy (1991-2003) |
| The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| The less we know the more we suspect | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. | Louis L'Amour |
| My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity | Malcolm X (1925-1965) |
| I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. | Malcolm X (1925-1965) |
| Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35-95) |
| Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. | Mary Schmich |
| The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. | P. J. O'Rourke (1947-) |
| A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. | quran |
| If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Tis the good reader that makes the good book. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. | Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) |
| [Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. | Rhoda Koenig |
| Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. | Richard Steele, Sr. |
| The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. | Roger Rosenblatt |
| The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible, | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. | Spike Milligan (1918-2002) |
| She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) |
| I can not live with out books. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body. | Warren Buffett (1930-) |
| The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |