Quotes About Reading

you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

You get a happy feeling helping someone read. You feel sort of like a wizard.

Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

I've been reading about moths," she said, to fill the silence. "What have you read?" Maggie shrugged. "They navigate by the light of the moon. They fling themselves into flames and electric lights because they think they're headed toward the moon's light." "I guess they die in ecstasy then," Liam said.

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.

In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was handed books. And through reading them, I grew up to find that very life.

I see you in the library. The way you love the books.

She imagined books and this book group getting her through whatever was coming next.

Adah discovered she had a knack for reading people. She took that God-given talent and further developed her observational skills. Everyone had a tell, and she used that more than anything else to survive by fortune-telling.

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.

Those who do not read, are no better off than those who cannot read.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

I really loved this book. I did for a school book report last year and I really got into it I just couldnt take my eyes of! You really absolutley need to read this book!

He nods. Jordan was given the series as a birthday gift and then had the idea to take the books out of the library as well, so he and his brother could read them at the same time. They lay in their bunks for hours, for several weeks on end, mowing through one book after another. Jordan would call out from the top bunk: Holy cow, Eddie, are you on page 202 yet?

My camp counselor won't even let me read during lunch. She says it's because reading is antisocial, but I think it's because she's actually Joseph Goebbels." "Who's that?" "Nazi. Burned books.

Later that night, Sylvie sat in bed with a book open in her lap. She was too sleepy to read, but the proximity of the book was comforting. Telling

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

Every weekday, rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, standoff or riots, I preferred to walk home, reading my latest book. This would be a 19th century book, because I did not like 20th century books, because I did not like the 20th century.

When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language. We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else's eyes.

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.