Quotes About Reading

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

From inside the thick of her grief, Lydia read. She read without lifting her eyes...only pausing when the ache in her shoulder or the pins and needles in her foot forced her to lift her eyes from the page, shift the pillows and turn the other way. Then her gaze would fall on the wallpaper with its pattern of roses and she would blink and wonder where in the world she was. Then, as she started to remember, thank God, there was the book, and she would slip under again, a sigh in her throat.

The man went back to reading the news on the screen: 'Three arrested for virus violation' … 'PM hosts Allied Security Talks', Jake read.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

I have settled, in short, from reading my own writings, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.

No book's too old for anybody who is able to enjoy it, and none too young, either, for that matter. Let her read what she likes.

To be successful, suspend your worries and your analytical thinking and just concentrate on reading the script as it is without any self-judgment.

Parar de leer novelas exige mucha fuerza. Hay que tener ganas de vivir, de correr, de crecer. (...) Me interesé antes por los libros que por la vida. Desde entonces, no he cesado de utilizar la lectura como un medio para hacer desaparecer el tiempo, y la escritura como un medio para retenerlo.

Seit damals benutze ich das Lesen als Mittel, die Zeit zum Verschwinden zu bringen, und das Schreiben als Mittel, sie festzuhalten.

Dime lo que lees y te diré quien eres; eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees".

Je suis content que tu aies trouvé ton livre, Steve. Tout le monde y arrive, un jour ou l'autre. Il faut parfois en lire dix, cent ou mille, mais on finit toujours par le dénicher. Enfin, presque toujours. Certains abandonnent avant de l'avoir trouvé, malheureusement...

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Ce n'est pas la peine d'avoir du talent à la cinquième ligne si le lecteur ne dépasse pas la troisième.

The idea that individuals should collect evidence and decide for themselves was out of the question. Once Falwell told his congregation that to read anything but the Bible and certain prescribed works of interpretation was at best a waste of time.

You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.

If reading the Bible does not raise profound problems for you as a modern reader, then check with your doctor and inquire about the symptoms of brain-death. Robert P. Carroll

The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.

The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.

Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow

Books have always meant a great deal to me. When I was young, people used to have all kinds of advice as to how the working class could free themselves from factory life and all of that frustration, but for me the true secret tunnel, the hidden escape route, was in the library, reading books.

Reading God's Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege.

Abraham Lincoln said, "I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man." Coleridge said he believed the Bible to be the Word of God because, as he put it, "It finds me." "If you want encouragement," John Bunyan wrote, "entertain the promises.