Quotes About Reading

i love books. i love that moment when you open one and sink into it. you can escape from the world, into a story thats way more interesting than yours will ever be.

I love books! I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world,into a story that's way more interesting than yours ever will be

He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.

Leer mala literatura es como comer comida basura

She almost had no preference for any kind of book, and she had sometimes thought that odd; she had read Shakespeare and the thrillers of Sharon McDonald, and biographies of Samuel Johnson and different playwrights, silly romance novels, and also—the poets. She thought, privately, that poets just about sat on the right hand of God.

I was so enthusiastic about the books I had read that I could see my students watching me and getting interested in these books too—just because I was so excited about these books that I had recently read.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Aristotle may have been dull to read, but he was easy to memorize.

All this creative outflow—the product of a post-1402 generation of Florentines eager to celebrate their political liberty and its unleashing of human potential—we call the Renaissance. Thanks to the Florentines' reading of Aristotle, a new way of seeing the world had been born, and with it a new appreciation of civic freedom.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

porque no se trata sólo de leer libros sino el placer físico y el consuelo interior que da tenerlos en las manos

one is never alone with a book nearby

Dejad leer y dejad danzar, pedía Voltaire.

nadie puede ser sabio sin haber leído por lo menos una hora al día, sin tener biblioteca por modesta que sea, sin maestros a los que respetar, sin ser lo bastante humilde para formular preguntas y atender con provecho las respuestas...

Dantés: que no hay dos libros iguales porque nunca hubo dos lectores iguales. Y que cada libro leído es, como cada ser humano, un libro singular, una historia única y un mundo aparte.

Una biblioteca no es algo por leer, sino una compañía —dijo, tras dar unos pasos más—. Un remedio y un consuelo.

No hay teoría revolucionaria sin práctica revolucionaria, camarada mayor. —La libertad de lectura es algo tan precioso que debe ser racionada, camarada comisario.

aprender es vivir en el roce con la calle, con los libros, con la Historia. Que quien mucho anda y mucho lee y mucho pelea, mucho sabe.

Un lector es lo que antes ha leído, más el cine y la televisión que ha visto. A la información que le proporcione el autor, siempre añadirá la suya propia. Y ahí está el peligro: el exceso de referencias puede haberle fabricado a usted un adversario equivocado, o irreal.