Quotes About Reading

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.

In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

She loved watching John—his movements so slow and steady, confident. And to talk with him in the evening after closing, even for a while, was like a reward. The sound of his voice as he read to her son, kind of raspy and soft, comforted her as much as it did Chris. She

Bibliotherapy"—using books to treat psychological disorders—may be a new trend, but for me, it came naturally.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Head in the book. Nose sliding down the valley between the pages.

I knew all the books in the house. I knew their shapes and smells. I knew what pages would open if I held them with the spine on the ground and let the sides drop. I knew all the books but I couldn't remember the name of the one on my head.

The sun shines. Readers read.

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

a room without boooks like a body without soul

El ejemplo de la lectura y la escritura es revelador de que allí hay un proceso de liberación: el mecanismo híbrido permite actos creativos que no están inscritos en una inexorable cadena de causas y efectos. La literatura, como otras expresiones artísticas, es una actividad liberadora.

He who owns Books and loves them is wise.

But suddenly, Pentunia spied the Book. The firecrackers had blown it open so that the pages showed. She had never seen them before. Now she saw that there was something written inside the Book which she could not read. So she sat down and thought and thought and thought, until at last she sighed, 'Now I understand. It was not enough to carry wisdom under my wing. I must put it in my mind and in my heart. And to do that I must learn to read.

The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity." -- Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.

There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.