Quotes About Reading

Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

I had a queer time with Aunt today, and, as I got the best of it, I'll tell you about it, began Jo, who dearly loved to tell stories. I was reading that everlasting Belsham, and droning away as I always do, for Aunt soon drops off, and then I take out some nice book, and read like fury till she wakes up. I actually made myself sleepy, and before she began to nod, I gave such a gape that she asked me what I meant by opening my mouth wide enough to take the whole book in at once.

She is fond of books and it has turned her brain.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him asunder. Read and improve your mind, my son, answered Archie, peering solemnly over the paper behind which he had been dozing.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.

The trick is to keep at it steadily.We'll see progress in time.""Didion believes the notebook's value lies in its record of "How it felt to be me"at a particular time.""Henry Miller believed reading was 'an act of creation' By reading slowly,carefully,and with complete attention,he believed,we respect the writer's work and enrich our lives.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

Nothing makes Penstemon happier than handing a favorite book to someone who wants to read it. I'm the same. I suppose you could say this delights us although 'delight' is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haine Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing.

Like Ben Franklin, Hamilton was mostly self-taught and probably snatched every spare moment to read. The

AN EARLY FOUNDATION of Lincoln's ability to speak was laid in his reading of William Scott's Lessons in Elocution.

I'm glad I can still sometimes drug my senses with a book.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Todos estes livros, reparo, estão a mudar-me por dentro. Eu não podia imaginar que isto de ler era como viver.

Siempre me ha dado pena la gente que no lee, y no ya porque sean más incultos, que sin duda lo son; o porque estén más indefensos y sean menos libres, que también, sino, sobre todo, porque viven menos.

But did she read to Cara, the books that Cara loved? The Borrowers and The Railway Children and every word of The Secret Garden.) Did she love the children, or simply possess them?

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.

It would be a while before Annabelle got back to reading Tidy Magic, but books are patient. We know how urgent and compelling your lives are, and so we bide our time.

He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.

Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.