Quotes About Reading

pero su tío Jaime opinaba que la gente no lee lo que no le interesa, y si le interesa es que ya tiene madurez para hacerlo.

Era a única pessoa de toda a casa que tinha uma chave para entrar no túnel de livros de seu tio e autorização para pegá-los e lê-los. Blanca acreditava que deveriam dosar a leitura, porque havia coisas que não eram adequadas à sua idade, mas seu tio Jaime afirmara que só se lê o que interessa, e, se interessa, é porque já se tem maturidade para fazê-lo.

Blanca argued that her reading should be monitored because there were certain things that were inappropriate for her age, but her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

La biblioteca está habitada por espíritus que salen de las páginas en las noches.

la gente no lee lo que no le interesa, y si le interesa es que ya tiene madurez para hacerlo.

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book.

There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'

I've never read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it's a zombie story, it's also 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

I read a lot when I was quite young and have been through phases when I have read less but it helps me stay in the zone when there is so much going on.

Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of 'The Real Housewives.' I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

I read part of it all the way through.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.