Quotes About Reading

I've always found that the better the book I'm reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus.

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

So it may be that reading your work aloud will not only improve its quality but save your life in the process.

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

La lectura hace al hombre completo; la conversación, ágil, y el escribir, preciso".

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

La lectura hace al hombre completo; la conversación lo hace ágil, el escribir lo hace preciso.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested

People of faith care how Scripture is read and interpreted because, like faith itself, Scripture is a gift given to the care of the Church for our salvation. God gives us these gifts because he wills us to be saved.

Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I;m convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes and even smaller part of it.

we must renounce reading the Bible to find arguments to justify our behavior or that of our group.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book

I'm mad about good books , can't get my fill .

Out of everything the depression stole from me... I miss my books the most.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.