Quotes About Reading

One summer I decided to read the twenty novels by Émile Zola in twenty days, one a day, and managed to do so at great expense.

Some books cannot be summarized; some can be compressed to about ten pages; the majority to zero pages.

people look for books that support their mental program.

Now being lazy, considering laziness as an asset, and eager to free up the maximum amount of time in my day to meditate and read

Si ella una noche no la encendía y se quedaba leyendo un libro en la butaca, él decía: «¿Cómo es que no enciendes la televisión? ¡Enciéndela! Si no, no sirve para nada tenerla. ¡Gino te la ha regalado y tú no la ves! ¡Le has hecho tirar el dinero! ¡Ahora por lo menos vela!».

El dar cuerda a alguien se decía en nuestra casa «dar cordel». Gino, efectivamente, daba poco cordel, porque siempre estaba leyendo, y cuando se le dirigía la palabra respondía con monosílabos y sin levantar la cabeza del libro.

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

I have always loved the feel of books, the way they give a literal weight to words and make of them a sacred object.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,---call it which you will,--- is a book...

the more she read, the more she came to understand the fears and the dreams of mortals. The trouble they all had living in the moment, in spite of the fact that the moment was all they had.

found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut

People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms.

but the more she read, the more she came to understand the fears and the dreams of mortals. The trouble they all had living in the moment, in spite of the fact that the moment was all they had.

Greyson was inoculated with a dose of his new life even before arriving home. The publicar he took read him the riot act even before it left the Nimbus Academy.

he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and—as Citra had already discovered—the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.

Most of these men's lives were so tortured that I enjoyed reading about them, thinking, well, I am in hell too and I can't even write music.