Quotes About Reading

Reading some poetry early in the morning is a habit—I read it before I start to work. Whenever people say, Nobody reads poetry anymore, I think, Well, I do." —

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.

I met a librian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she wanats to switch it off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

Blind tastete ich auf dem Nachttisch herum, und meine Finger schoben sich zwischen Romane, die ich nicht mehr las, weil man einfach nicht zurück konnte, wenn man erst mal mit E-Books angefangen hatte.

The reading-room? "Of the British Museum. I go there every day." "You do? I've only been there once. I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. It—it seemed to sap one's vitality. It doe. That's why I go there. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles.

God intended for everyone to be able to read and understand his Word. The

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

Your grandmother says you read a lot. Every chance you get. That's good, but not good enough. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Sua avó diz que você lê muito. Em todas as oportunidades que tem. Isso é bom, mas não o suficiente. Palavras significam mais do que é colocado no papel. É preciso a voz humana para dar a elas as nuances do significado mais profundo.

Tu abuela dice que lees mucho, siempre que tienes oportunidad. Eso está bien, pero no es suficiente. Las palabras significan más de lo que dicen en el papel. Necesitan la voz humana para que les infunda los matices del significado más profundo.

Me había transmitido su palabra secreta con la que convocar un genio que había de servirme toda la vida: libros

All I cared about was that she had made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book. It was enough to prove that she liked me.

Easy reading is damn hard writing." —

I snatched the paper away from Dopey. Hey, he yelled. I was reading that! Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try, I said.

Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens....

I just got a fortune cookie that says Turn off your computer and read a book which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.

John lowered the book he'd been reading. Im sorry. Were you speaking to me? I know you were listening, I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down.

Book light," Grandma grumbles as I hurry her away from Dad's boss and his wife. "Who the hell wants a book light?" "Lots of people," I say. "They are very handy things to have.

Did Gran go to a gynecologist? That is totally weird. I never thought about my grandmother's vagina before. I don't want to be thinking about my grandmother's vagina. Not here, at her funeral. In a church. While i'm doing a reading from the Bible.

And the Lazy Parrot Inn was the perfect setting in which to read a book about "one man's journey to redemption." It had been hard to tell from the photos on the website exactly what the hotel was going to be like. It had certainly looked nice (especially since I wasn't paying for it), but people and places almost always look better online than they do in real life.

I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.