Quotes About Reading

My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

Creo que la lectura y la escritura nos permiten ensanchar la vida, ya que alargarla no podemos

Abrirlo le recordó que la lectura para ella no era un mero entretenimiento, sino un viaje. Los libros, los libros buenos, un pasaporte sin caducidad

He hablado en muchas partes de la impresión que me produjo esa lectura (el Ulises), pues la novela de Joyce fue algo mucho más importante y decisivo que una mera influencia: fue la Epifanía a de una vocación.

He reads the Caribbean maritime memoirs of Frederick Benton Williams and the Paraguayan terrestrial memoirs of George Frederick Masterman. He reads Cunninghame Graham's books (Hernando de Soto, Vanished Arcadia), and books that Cunninghame Graham recommends: Wild Scenes in South America, by Ramón Páez, and Down the Orinoco in a Canoe, by Santiago Pérez Triana.

Ah, ah. No releas, Paul. Eres muy joven, y aquellos que releen tienden a llenarse de la sabiduría inadecuada antes de tiempo. Ahora tienes que leer, leer todo lo que puedas, lo más heterogéneo posible. Sólo cuando llegas a mis años sabes que aquello que relees no es una pérdida de tiempo.

Que los límites de tu lenguaje son los límites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanático de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Alguien como Antonia, que vive encerrada en la prisiòn de su proprio cerebro, percibe con mucha màs claridad que lo demàs seres humanos una verdad inapelable. Que los limites de tu lenguaje son los lìmites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanàtico de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Todo lo que había hecho en su vida antes era sentarse delante de un libro. A absorber ideas de otros, sobre todo.

Que los limites de tu lenguaje son los lìmites de tu mundo. Aun sin expresarlo en estos términos, cualquier fanàtico de la lectura lo comprende de forma intuitiva, y por eso nunca puede leer lo suficiente.

Toda lectura es interpretación, no en el sentido hermeneútico, sino más bien musical del término.

Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.

Witches are commonly depicted reading. This may not seem unusual today, however up until the eighteenth century artists rarely depicted women in the act of reading with two significant exceptions: women who are clearly studying devotional material and witches who study books of magic.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.

Well, now, isn't that fine! Course, I don't know next to nothing about books, never could read much, and I ain't heard of that one, but I know it's important for a young person to get all the education they can. You go right on and read, Mattie, and I'll help your ma." He patted me on the head, and as I looked up, I saw Mama give him a long sideways look. I wasn't sure what it meant, but I read a little hurt and disappointment in her face.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter ' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.