Quotes About Reading

The best way to break this cycle, I think, is to work out your anxieties on paper. Read every book and magazine you can on the subject. Your anxiety makes this easy and the more you read the more you calm down. You should remember that its peace of mind you're after and not just a fixed machine.

Perhaps fifty years since we learned that reading problems of a type that we now call dyslexia aren't due to laziness but instead involve microscopic cortical malformations.

Most teachers lack real-world experience—they have not done what they teach. They haven't actually experienced what they teach, made mistakes, learned from those mistakes, and applied what they've learned as they continue to practice and get better and better. Schools teach us to read and memorize. I believe that 'studying' is the key to applying what we learn. Kim and I meet with our Advisors several times a year and we choose books to read and study together.

Financial literacy is the ability to read and understand financial statements which allows you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of any business.

Ninety percent of the population buys TV sets, and only about 10 percent buy business books.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.

Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake.

Our library isn't very extensive, but every book in it is a friend.

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

Notre bibliothèque n'est pas très fournie mais chacun des livres qu'elle contient est un ami.

When I wake up in the night and cannot go to sleep again, remarked Susan, who was knitting and reading at the same time, I pass the moments by torturing the Kaiser to death. Last night I fried him in boiling oil and a great comfort it was to me, remembering those Belgian babies.

I am simply a book drunkard.

Allan thinks it is a proper book for a girl thirteen and three-quarters to read.

I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.

All I want is someone who reads books, loves his work, and me, too, of course, and who doesn't take drugs, and isn't on unemployment.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.

He doesn't talk much, though, she added. I don't care whether he talks or not, Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man talk.

There's no one book that would define me; I'd have to name nearly every book that I've read over the past 70 years. Reading has sustained me and has been the one constant throughout my life.

I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects.

There can be secondary and tertiary reasons for wanting a particular book. One is the pleasure of holding the physical book itself: savoring the type, the binding, the book's feel and heft. All these things can be enjoyed apart from literature, which some, but not all, books contain.