Quotes About Reading

Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.

I'm training to be an Aunt," I said. "I'm not really supposed to like anyone." 49 My reading abilities progressed slowly and with many stumbles.

While I read, the Commander sits and watches me doing it, without speaking but also without taking his eyes off me. This watching is a curiously sexual act, and I feel undressed while he does it.

Time passed. I gardened, I read, and so on. I had already begun—in a modest way, and beginning with a few pieces of animal jewellery from Richard—the trade in second-hand artifacts that, as it turned out, would stand me in good stead in the coming decades. A semblance of normality had been installed. But unshed tears can turn you rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter, ' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.