Quotes About Reading

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

Mr Pugh: Pigs can't read, my dear. Mrs Pugh: I know one who can.

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.

Our family has always loved fairy tales. There is something ugly and true in them. They hurt, they are strange, but we cannot stop reading them, over and over.

I own a well-used library card and not much else

I own a well-used library card and not much else pg.10

It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Before we can be confident we are reading the Bible accurately, we need to understand what assumptions and values we project onto the Bible:

We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a crosscultural experience.

He learned to read the ocean by a cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as the destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar.

There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse

Yes?" asked Margaret, for there was a long pause—a pause that was somehow akin to the flicker of the fire, the quiver of the reading-lamp upon their hands, the white blur from the window; a pause of shifting and eternal shadows.

when I don't have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don't have a book, there is nowhere good or interesting to be, there is nobody to care about, nothing to hope for, and nothing to puzzle over. When I do have something to read, it keeps me breathing. It's the reward for all the other things. It's the think to look forward to, the reason for doing my day.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.