Quotes About Reading

Il n'est pas de chagrin qu'un livre ne puisse consoler.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books.They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it.

Tis my humor as much to regard the form as the substance, and the advocate as much as the cause, as Alcibiades ordered we should: and every day pass away my time in reading authors without any consideration of their learning; their manner is what I look after, not their subject. And just so do I hunt after the conversation of any eminent wit, not that he may teach me, but that I may know him, and that knowing him, if I think him worthy of imitation, I may imitate him.

Dit hier zijn mijn gedachten, en daarmee probeer ik geen kennis over de dingen maar over mijzelf te verschaffen. Misschien zal ik nog eens kennis over de dingen krijgen, of heb ik die vroeger gehad, toen ik bij toeval op passages stuitte waar ze werden opgehelderd. Maar dat herinner ik mij niet meer. Want ook al lees ik nogal wat, er zit geen bodem in dit vat.

All life was finally judged by this degree of irritation: abuse of things that were not natural, the sedentary life of cities, novel reading, theatergoing, immoderate thirst for knowledge

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

On peut presque tout faire sans lumière sauf écrire. Ecrire demande des lueurs. Vivre se suffit d'ombre, lire exige la clarté. Fast alles kann man ohne Licht tun, außer Schreiben. Zum Schreiben ist Licht nötig. Zum Leben genügt Dunkelheit; Lesen braucht Helligkeit.

Maybe… they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.

Aquel que llegaba a interesarse por un libro se convertía inevitablemente en un esclavo de la lectura. Un libro te remitía a otro libro, un autor a otro autor, porque, en contra de lo que solía decirse, los libros nunca te resolvían problemas sino que te los creaban, de modo que la curiosidad del lector siempre quedaba insatisfecha. Y, al apelar a otros títulos, iniciabas una cadena que ya no podía concluir sino con la muerte.

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan peligrosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

The President faced the microphone with a look of utter helplessness, like a man reading My Pet Goat to a group of pre-schoolers as a major terrorist attack happens elsewhere.

There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway.

buku adalah emblem dari persaudaraan rahasia. Karena ia hanya memunyai satu senjata untuk memerangi dunia kekasaran yang mengelilinginya, yaitu buku-buku... ... yang lebih penting lagi adalah buku-buku novel yang telah dibacanya...

Really, there are books meant for daytime reading and books that are only be read at night.

Fu li che cominciai a dividere i libri in due categorie: quelli per il giorno e quelli per la notte. Sul serio, ci sono libri per il giorno e libri che si possono leggere solo di notte.

Foi no hospital que comecei a classificar os livros em duas categorias: os diurnos e os noturnos. É verdade, há livros para o dia, e livros que só podem ser lidos à noite.

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey...

When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly black out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at on time.

When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking.

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

If you like Harlan Coben, you'll love Linwood Barclay.