Quotes About Reading

Armiger leaned over her and kissed her cheek. "Which what do I prefer?" "Do you prefer making love or reading?" He voice held a teasing note, but he had learned there were frequently hidden needs behind her teasing questions. "To read is to make love to the world," he said. "But to make love to a woman is to feel like the world is reading you.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.

I believe in books," her friend whispered. "We have to save them all.

READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT.

You were alive for such a short time and then you went back into the great silence. The only ones who didn't vanish were the artists. While you were reading their words and looking at their pictures they were still alive, and you shared some of their life too.

In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it.

Abracadabra! Fiddle-fee-fee! Open this book and read it to me!

When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in my hear that felt good.

When you hear somebody read a story well, you can't help but think there's some good inside them, even if you don't know them.

Anyone who reads Thoreau might find his sage advice a beacon for living a fulfilling life. The key is to leave your life open to opportunities, ideas and change—offered by education, travel, reading books and joining clubs. When you do, you will meet others who love to explore their spirits, minds and potential talents. Once you mingle with those people, their ideas cascade onto and into you.

To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?

Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.