Quotes About Reading

In the last ten days they sold only 9 books, 6 of which were mine. It is trickling along, Eve Adams* still selling a few now and then. Much réclame in Montparnasse. Have to keep away from [Café] Dôme and other places because I am constantly being introduced to jackasses who read the book and whom I don't care to know. [. . .]

I love the sharing. I feel with extraordinary vividness your presence, as if you were reading with me. I actually experience again the sensation of my leaning over your shoulder and kissing your hair and neck while you are reading or writing.

Reading Albertine Disparue

Have been reading Spengler exultantly. I never expected to experience such a sense of wonder, of vastness and richness.

Ante ciertos libros, uno se pregunta: ¿quién los leerá? Y ante ciertas personas uno se pregunta: ¿qué leerán? Y al fin, libros y personas se encuentran.

I had resigned my temporary lectureship—thankless, dreary work, from which I would be suddenly distracted by the slightest song, the slightest sound coming from the country outside; in every passing cry I heard an invitation. How often I have leapt from my reading and run to the window to see—nothing pass by! How often I have hurried out of doors. . . The only attention I found possible was that of my five senses.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.

What a melancholy day! I said. Aren't you bored? Not particularly. I am reading.

Leo demasiado; todo eso fermenta.

A mon âge, on ne voyage plus sans bibliothèque.

Most Amerikans do not read books--they prefer television. Academics lock books in a tangled web of mindfuck and abstraction. The notion is that there are ideas, then art, then somewhere else, unrelated, life.

A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs.-Albert Einstein

Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.

I've got a lot to learn. I've got 101 books sitting by my bedside - piles of books - absolutely gripped.

And if he enjoys the reading of the Word little, that is the reason he should read it much, for the frequent reading of the Scriptures creates a delight in them. The more we read them, the more we desire to do so. Above all, he should seek to have it settled in his own mind that God alone by His Spirit can teach him, and therefore, as he asks God for blessings, it serves him to seek God's blessing prior to reading and while reading.

When I was young, all I wanted to read were pretentious little books. Camus and Tournier and Calvino. If it had a plot, I hated it.

The villain raises first one eyebrow, then the other. "When I was young, all I wanted to read were pretentious little books. Camus and Tournier and Calvino. If it had a plot, I hated it." "You remain this way," Luisa chides, and he

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.

THE OFFICIAL NAME of the road was Portugal Street, in honour of our Queen, Catherine of Braganza, but everyone persisted in calling it Piccadilly. It was an old route west to Hyde Park and then towards Reading. Long ago, some of the land nearby had been owned by a man who had grown rich in the manufacture of those large old collars of cutwork lace named piccadills, and somehow the name had been transferred to the road.

News you can't read calmly, don't read at all!

Marcie, you don't need to read books. It's just a dumb habit for introverts.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." —To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Books Our Mother Loved" (here she placed Indiana and The Devil's Pool, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights), "Books Our Father Loved" (here she placed The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories, Great Expectations, and Twelve

Well, to make a long story short, I had this long talk with my baseball coach. And I started reading about depression. I learned that it can be serious. You shouldn't ignore it. Talking about it can help. So can a long trip.