Quotes About Reading

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying I must read that, too, when I've the time, replace it and continue the search.

Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows , was his favourite book.

At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family.

sunglasses and rubbed his right eye with his index finger.  Let's see...it was the October 15th issue, page 12, lower right-hand corner. Quinn

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read read what? everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.

there was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of he young breath-giving air.

It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed – it soothed him.

And then in a jiffy he was under the high ceiling of his great front room. This was entirely satisfactory. Here, after all, life began. Here he slept, breakfasted, read and entertained.

my yacht. I don't mind going for a coupla hours' cruise. I'll even lend you that book so you'll have something to read on the revenue

He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.

ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388 And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be so lavish as to ruin masterpieces for yourself. There are not enough of them!

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air. I

The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and

The most recent edition of the test—called the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)—was conducted in 2012, and it found that among the OECD's thirty-four members, the United States ranked twenty-seventh, twentieth, and seventeenth in math, science, and reading, respectively.

nashi no hana / tsuki ni fumi yomu / onna ari A woman Reading a letter by moonlight Pear blossoms.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

Tú lee todo lo que puedas. Reúne cultura. Cuanta más, mejor. Para que no caigas al agujero en el que están cayendo muchos en este país.

To read is to dream, guided by someone else's hand.

Leer es soñar de la mano del otro. Leer mal y por encima es tanto como librarnos de la mano que nos guía. La superficialidad en la erudición es el mejor modo de leer bien y ser profundo.

One man reads in order to know, all in vain. Another enjoys himself in order to live, again all in vain.

I know of no pleasure like that of books, yet I read very little. Books are the entryway to dreams, but people at ease in life don't need such introductions to enter into conversation with dreams. I could never read a book and give myself over to it; always, with each step, the commentary of my intellect or my imagination interrupts the narrative sequence. After some minutes I am the one who writes and the writing is nowhere to be seen.