Quotes About Reading

I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don't even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that's wrong.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of future happiness.

M?n h?r ?eyi öyr?nm?y?, h?yatdan geri qalmama?a el? can at?rd?m ki, ax?rda mehrimni h?rfl?ri iri, a? yerl?ri çox olan nazik kitablara sald?m; ?n yax?? c?h?ti d? budur ki, h?min kitablar? el? ordaca kitabxana r?fin? qoyub dig?r cildi oxuma?a ba?lama qmümkündür.

Quand je pense à tous les livres qu'il me reste à lire, j'ai la certitude d'être encore heureux .

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Das Lesen war weder Arbeit noch Hobby, es folgte keinem bestimmten Interesse. Lesen war ein Zustand, in dem die Zeit verstrich, weil sie nicht anders konnte, während Adas Verstand in Nahrung eingelegt wurde, so dass seine hektische Gier in ein gleichmäßiges Einsaugen und Verwerten überging.

Our reading is always urged on by the instinct to complete what we read, which is, for some reason, one of the most universal and profound of our instincts. You

We found so much to say, to share, to learn.... For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón.

Anything I could get my hands on. Thomas liked to call me a bookworm." "More of a book dragon, I should think." She laughed. "Why would you say that?" "You are far too fierce to be a lowly worm.

I was an appalling person to teach. At 14, I was pretty advanced. I would read all the books in a few minutes, and I was bored. It must have been awful for a teacher to have a bright boy who's giving them his undivided indifference.

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.