Quotes About Reading

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

Reading has been very different for me ever since, much lighter, with less attachment.

I'd read a great many books, even Dharma books, but I was making this itch into one of the worst catastrophes in human history.

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Ronnie indossava calzoncini porpora e una T-shirt che diceva: AL DI FUORI DEL CANE, IL LIBRO è IL MIGLIOR AMICO DELL'UOMO. DENTRO IL CANE, è TROPPO BUIO PER LEGGERE.

Mimo psa je kniha nejlepÅ¡í pÃ…â"¢ítel ?lovÄ›ka. UvnitÃ…â"¢ psa je moc velká tma na ?tení.

But she's reading the email over and over again and playing Adele and Amy Winehouse," Paige reveals. Adele and Amy Winehouse? Oh no. We'd better keep an eye on her," I say grimly.

I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, who find themselves ill at ease, unless they are let into the whole secret from first to last, of everything which concerns you.

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;——they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book, for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;—one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer,——he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All hail, brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Audrey used to pass her some of her story books, but Gayle was no reader, not much or a homemaker neither, though Betty did try giving her a few lessons. I reckon Gayle lived on potato chips and Dr Pepper, and when Okey was home, they just lived on love.

I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read. Heaven .

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

the only thing that helped me breathe was opening a book

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read.

I try to read while eating alone, but the noise gets between my eyes and the page and I can't see through it.

Other than that, employ this rule: A book gets fifty pages. If you aren't dying to get back to it the next day, move on over to the next one.

Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you.