Quotes About Reading

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything.

Wouldn't it be good if we could let teachers do what they do best - teach. Not judge each child on a series of standardized exams. Let schools embrace, not exclude, those like me with a different way of thinking. Stop praising literacy with one hand and closing libraries with the other. Let librarians be free to do what they do best: encourage a lifelong love of reading in every child, even the ones without a hope of ever getting an A star.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable. In fact, you do them in order to become miserable, so you won't have to be bored anymore.

But we must never read such promises, or anything in the Old Testament, as if Jesus had not come and the New Testament had not been written.

But the wasteland of Illinois had driven me to Scripture reading.

Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang was a critic of "an educational system that does not offer anything other than limited reading and writing." Beh-Rang

It has a strange way of making sense," Ruth whispers. Mr. Bell nods. "The mis-arrangement of words suggests reincarnation. It suggests multiple, endless readings.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

I read part of it all the way through.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.