Quotes About Reading

Books swept me away, one after the other, this way and that; I made endless vows according to their lights, for I believed them.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

She reads ?books as ?one would breathe air ?to fill up and live

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is... what he will know.

She read books as one would breath air, to fill up and live.

She reads books as one would create air, to fill up and live

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following his spoken words with their eyes and pretending to read, their comes a day when they no longer have to pretend.

I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.

I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.

I see you have them books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across someone who still reads, brother.

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Koltuk alt?nda kitaplar ta??d???n? görüyorum kardeÅŸim. Bugünlerde hâlâ kitap okuyan birine rastlamak gerçekten nadide bir zevk kardeÅŸim.

Books are the food of the soul. Good and wholesome food given to a hungry body will nourish it, but if the food is poisonous, it will be injurious to the system. The same happens with reading. If people read good and instructive books at regular and proper times, it will strengthen and nourish them greatly.

I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.

That's right: statistics show that fewer than 10% of people who buy a book ever read past the first chapter.

Book love, my friend, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant t you as long as you live.

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man.

What!" said his sensible enemies, "is Johnny not to be taught to read because he does not like it?" "Johnny must read by all means," would the doctor answer; "but is it necessary that he should not like it? If the preceptor have it in him, may not Johnny learn, not only to read, but to like to learn to read?

He certainly was no fool. He had read much, and, though he generally forgot what he read, there were left with him from his readings certain nebulous lights, begotten by other men's thinking, which enabled him to talk on most subjects. It cannot be said of him that he did much thinking for himself; — but he thought that he thought.