Quotes About Reading

No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.

Books -- they come home hot in your hands and then by increments they warm your life, like heated bricks in a New England bed.

I don't have any kids, so I'm not as worried about my heirs as the rest of you, but still: I think the youth of tomorrow might be better off if they knew the physical sensation of cracking a spine and turning the page.

I read, therefore, I matter.

reading was the cornerstone of self-esteem, success, and even a simple pleasure that was lifelong. She

She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books.

Books center us, heal us, and connect us, and I believe that reading is fundamental to democracy.

She'd stopped checking Facebook when the posts about Evan started appearing in her feed, mostly horrible and vile. She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books. Mindy

Si Emma Bovary n'avait pas lu tous ces romans, il est possible que son sort aurait été différent.

Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest children's books. I think it was Ruth Hill Viguers who compared this attitude with asking a pediatrician when he's going to stop fooling around and get down to the serious business of treating adults.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have

Keep reading It's one of the most adventures that anyone can have

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

always busy because of interesting books

But this room's walls were completely covered by bookcases, filled, which reached to the ceiling. There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters.

A book with no pictures lets you make your own pictures in your mind. A guy who writes a book like that really trusts the people who read it to make the kind of pictures he wants them to. Of course he helps them along with the words.

eight books every week from the time she was two—she had taken more than four thousand books out of that library.

I've read The Book of the Law. I must be slow. I cannot make heads nor tails of it. Every time I read it, I glean one insight, yet still end up confused. Thanks, Name withheld ………………………… Dear Name withheld, Good! I'd be really worried if you said you understood The Book of the Law. One insight per reading is really a good track record.

Jack said, "No more buying books from Amazon till I've read the ones on my shelves.

it all remained unreadable for him, though reading, he felt, was not a natural thing and should not be done to people. In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.

She gave him books of poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, all the W's. When she'd ask him how he liked them, he would say, Fine. I'm on page… and then he would tell her what page he was on and how many pages he'd accomplished that day.