Quotes About Reading

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Cada vez que prestamos un título, cada vez que preguntamos algo en relación con él, cada vez que decimos "Si te ha gustado ese, seguro que te gustará este" nos transformamos —por arte de magia— en esa sociedad literaria.

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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

Il s'agissait d'user le temps, de tromper l'ennui par toutes sortes d'activités sans réelle importance, dont la lecture.

The most intense part of her life is the time she spends immersed in the books she has insatiably consumed ever since she learned to read.

Il suivait l'avance des armées sur une carte accrochée dans la cuisine, découvrait les journaux polissons et allait au cinéma à Y... Tout le monde lisait à haute voix le texte sous l'image, beaucoup n'avaient pas le temps d'arriver au bout.

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen."

Beware the man of one book.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

For 'Luke Cage,' of course, I was familiar with Power Man and Iron Fist. I read the comics. That was really more stuff that you read for fun. It wasn't that you read either of those comics for profound moments, although they have profound moments.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you... Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand.

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.