Quotes About Reading

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.

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Um dia abri um livro e toda a minha vida mudou. Desde a primeira página, sofri com tanta força o poder do livro que senti o meu corpo apartado da cadeira e da mesa a que me sentava.

Perché io sia felice è necessario che ogni giorno mi occupi un po' di letteratura.

He may have merely read the travel journals of Evliya Chelebi

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, "Go on then, read what the letter tells you!" whereas the dull-witted will say, "Go on then, read what he's written!

I know there are many stances we can adopt towards the novel, many ways in which we commit our soul and mind to it, treating it lightly or seriously. And in just the same manner, I have learned by experience that there are many ways to read a novel. We read sometimes logically, sometimes with our eyes, sometimes with our imagination, sometimes with a small part of our mind, sometimes the way we want to, sometimes the way the books wants us to, and sometimes with every fiber of our being.

Ferhat came in one evening with a book called Examples of Beautiful Love Letters and How to Write Them. To make sure they took it seriously, he read a selection of possible forms of address out loud, but Mevlut always found reason to object. He couldn't address Rayiha as "Ma'am." Both "Dear Ma'am" and "Little Lady" sounded equally strange. (Still, the word "little" definitely worked.)

Reading is to the mind, says Addison, what exercise is to the body. As by the one health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated, by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished and confirmed.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, says Mary Wortley Montagu; nor any pleasure so lasting. Good books elevate the character, purify the taste, take the attractiveness out of low pleasures, and lift us upon a higher plane of thinking and living. It is not easy to be mean directly after reading a noble and inspiring book. The conversation of a man who reads for improvement or pleasure will be flavored by his reading; but it will not be about his reading.

I could read and walk four miles an hour.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, says Trollope, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasures that God has prepared for His creatures. Other pleasures may be more ecstatic; but the habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know, in which there is no alloy.

Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us read these stories that we know are not 'true' because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time.

Together they read the message. COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING. —GOD Bernard went red with anger. "Who did this!" he shouted. "God," said Shen.

Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not true because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-real world. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

That's how we're going to face the end of the world? Reading a book?

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

Al cielo non chiedo altro che una casa piena di libri e un giardino pieno di fiori