Quotes About Reading

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

I love reading another reader's list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

but we might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us.

It seems that one ought to read in two ways: 1) because of a particular and personal interest, which makes the thing one's own, regardless of what other people think of the book 2) to a certain extent, because it is something one 'ought to have read' but one must be quite clear this why one is reading.

T.S. Eliot said to me "There's only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn't matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it's in another language.) What matters above all, is educating the ear.

and everywhere books, books, books

Read books? That's like eating mielie pap—it start out bad, then it get no better." Joseph took a deep breath and let it out slowly, overburdened by the mere thought of literature.

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom.

I have always had that skill of being able to escape my immediate surroundings by diving into a book;

Vi?u sav? zi?? nomierin?ja atrašan?s šaj?, lielaj?, drošaj?, skaistaj? ?k?, kura bija pilna ar to, kas vi?am patika, - ar gr?mat?m. Vi?u iesk?va zin?šanas, gudr?ba, saj?sma, nosl?pumi, kas pieder?ja vi?am par niec?gu cenu- prasmi las?t v?rdus.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

No one is lonely when they read or create. It is only the uncreative who indulge in gossip.

Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

Read to your children all of the time Novels and nursery rhymes Autobiographies, even the newspaper It doesn't mater; it's quality time Because once upon a time We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told We need words to hold us and the world to behold us For us to truly know our souls

Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.

There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.

No leer es dar la espalda a las mentes más sabias.

What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.

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.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón. Porque satisface la sed de conocimiento de esa persona, no la de algún hombre que vivía en la torre de un castillo hace doscientos años" - Andrew

Edwina probably wouldn"t notice if her bed caught on fire while she was reading a book.

That much was also true. Edwina probably wouldn"t notice if her bed caught on fire while she was reading a book.