Quotes About Reading

Mary had written a memoir in 1959, making it easy for me to scratch the surface of her life. I found a dog-eared copy at the Strand Book Store downtown, read it, and was hooked. She was smart, witty, and self-denigrating.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

After writing and before publishing a book, the writer should read it as a reader since such insight mirrors the flaws.

Generally, you read one time, whereas, a writer writes and rewrites several times to reach your heart and mind rightly.

Honeybees naturally, focus on storing nectar of flowers and fruits for the honey; however, people who realize the value of honey, they benefit from that. Similarly, the writers write, and the readers read to acquire knowledge and vision from that, for its qualification; otherwise, failure becomes inevitable.

Or the angry ones. Holding their heads oh no like a virus is taking over. My mind! Like it's such a big deal. Minds are always being taken over. Succumb, don't resist. Because we do get to choose what we are succumbing to. We create worlds out of what we put into our heads. I don't know about you. It's why I read.

I'm from a family of readers. Not of great books, but of great reading

parents to read, since even highly sensitive parents will

Most of you, however, being fond of reading and quiet study, excelled in schoolwork. It was the development of social or physical skills that was hampered by your overarousal. To handle that, perhaps you found a close friend to play with. And perhaps you had the reputation of being the one who thought up the best games, wrote the best stories, and painted the best pictures.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.

She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held a great many books.

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

Maybe, I thought, I've given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

The 'right reading' is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we've read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we've truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.

In my spare time I didn't go out, I sat and read novels I got from the library: Grazia Deledda, Pirandello, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky.

La biblioteca per lei era una grande risorsa. Chiacchiera dietro chiacchiera, mi mostrò fieramente tutte le tessere che aveva, quattro: una sua, una intestata a Rino, una a suo padre e una a sua madre. Con ciascuna prendeva un libro in prestito, così da averne quattro tutti insieme. Li divorava e la domenica successiva li riportava e ne prendeva altri quattro.

Leo muchísimo pero sin ningún orden, y olvido lo que leo.

Si lo que leo o escribo me gusta, no pego ojo; si me disgusta, caigo en un sueño frágil de decepción y descontento.

Reading brought on a desire to write, and writing brought on a desire to read.

Everything, in writing, has a long history behind it. Even my uprising, my spilling over the margins, my yearning is part of an eruption that came before me and goes beyond me. Thus when I talk about my "I" who writes, I should immediately add that I'm talking about my "I" who has read (even when it's a question of distracted reading, the trickiest kind of reading).

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.