Quotes About Reading

Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.

Siobhan said that I should write something I would want to read myself. Mostly I read books about science and maths. I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which whose clench who do not depend on stimulus. What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor does Siobhan or Mr. Jeavons. I have asked them.

Siobhan said that I should write something I would want to read myself.

At home he was reading Pet Sematary, but reading that in public was like leaving the house in your underwear.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well

Leer es fundamentalmente un síntoma. De una imaginación saludable, de nuestro interés en este y otros mundos, de nuestra capacidad para estar callados e inmóviles, también para soñar despiertos

Mind your discipline to read, read to discipline your mind.

When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mum's the word. I suppose it's because his wife's dead, said Christiana, that he dances with a broom. I don't think so, said Boonya. He dances with a mop, too. Maybe he had a mistress. He did, but she had short hairs. I also got short-haired mops.

The only thing New Yorkers ignore more than nature is history. They have a habit of not spending a great deal of time pondering the history of their city. That is because of a sense that it has always been more or less the same, or, as Edmund Wilson, one of the more venerated New Yorker writers of that magazine's heyday, explained his waning enthusiasm for reading history in his old age, "I know more or less the kind of things that happen.

had the good fortune to come from a generation that had no YA books available. Once you moved beyond children's books there was nowhere to go but adult books.

I had the good fortune to come from a generation that had no YA books available. Once you moved beyond children's books there was nowhere to go but adult books.

If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation.

The hours you spent reading this really do represent an irrevocable loss for you. You can never get that time back. That part of your life is gone forever. I'm profoundly grateful to you for that.

Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.

Reading is the parent of fine writing. It fosters familiarity with the written word & sets the template for a writer's journey ~ Mark Rubinstein

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, because that is what he will know.

Why are we reading, if not in the hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened, and its deepest mystery probed?

she reads book as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ?