Quotes About Reading

In short, this was a period in which the phrase 'you're never alone with a good book' started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.

On average, everyone has read The Da Vinci Code. You have probably read it. Even if you have not read it, statistically you have.

It occurred to me that I had been extraordinarily fortunate to have grown up in a prosperous country in an era when, for pretty much the first time in its history, I could read whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted to. And what had I done with this freedom? I had slowly, though unintentionally, abused it. My reading life had become an accumulation of bad habits, short cuts and lies.

I don't know if you have ever tried to read Moby-Dick on a DS in a Tesco car park - I doubt you have - but I cannot recommend it. The two miniature screens, so in harmony with the escapades of Super Mario and Lego Batman, do not lend themselves to the study of this arcane, eldritch text; and nor does the constant clamor of a small boy in the back seat asking when he can have his DS back.

The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people.

It's [kindle] a useful addition to our library, not a replacement for it.

All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great.

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.

Now that," said Mrs. Morland, up in arms for seeing things straight, "is just rubbish. There isn't any good or bad taste about what books you read: it's what you like or don't like.

I am what is known as an omnivorous reader and it all goes right through me and out of my mouth.

Boy 412 reading Thaumaturgy and Sortilage: Why Bother? with avid interest.

Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid, but the choice of a book presented some difficulties...

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading, or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. Every evening.

I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to read every month to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month.

The act of reading to a child is the most important contribution to the future of our society that adults can make.

Nick Clark: Books are so important in conveying messages to children. We may not fully appreciate the impact of a book until we are older, but there are things that we learn from our reading.

Proust is even harsher on the same subject with the university professor Brichot. Like Françoise, Brichot never connects his reading to his inner life, and therefore fails to grasp the universal beauty and truth of certain texts. His being a professor of literature makes the posturing, petty criticism, and lack of insight particularly shocking.

It was my experience that the printing on anything I picked up, from maps to telephone books, had gotten smaller every year.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.