Quotes About Reading

Ich schreibe aus demselben Grund, aus dem andere lesen: Man will nicht nur ein Leben leben.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads].

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

There are 2 motives for reading a book; 1. That you enjoy it, 2. that can boast about it on goodreads.

Why do people read? The answer, as regards the great majority, is: 'They don't.

Há dois motivos para ler um livro. Um: porque você gosta; o outro: pra você se gabar disto.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads]." - Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell

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I loved this time of night, how everything softened and lost the hard edges of day, and how, if the wind moved just right, the live oaks would murmur tender green words across the shadowy lawn. Sitting with a book in the warm circle of light from the table lamp had become my favorite way to end the day.

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

I've been to Oculus a few times to do book signings and things there, and they tell me 'Ready Player One' is, like, required reading for new employees.

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

I like making things. I enjoy putting words and images on a blank space. There should be joy in the writing itself because parts of it are so challenging and lonesome. I take great pleasure in reading, researching, and interviewing. I enjoy forming my sentences and revising them to make them clean.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.