Quotes About Reading

Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time.

I still buy books faster than I can read them. But again, this feels completely normal: how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life.

Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism?

My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism; but it's not pointless in terms of pleasure.

Als je een goed boek leest, ontsnap je niet aan het leven, je stort je er juist dieper in. Er kan sprake zijn van een oppervlakkige ontsnapping – in verschillende landen, mores, spraakpatronen – maar wat je in wezen doet is je begrip versterken van de subtiliteiten, paradoxen, vreugde, pijn en waarheden van het leven. Leven en lezen zijn geen onderscheiden maar symbiotische waarden.

Ljudi kažu da je život prava stvar ali ja više volim ?itanje.

He didn't go to church. He read The Times and the Telegraph. He had been friendly and polite with me, but also sarcastic and rude; mainly, I would say, indifferent. He seemed to be cross with life.

I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed to be an organic combination of her mind and personality, whereas mine struck me as functionally separate, straining to describe a character I hoped to grow into.

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.

I have never looked to religion for comfort—belief is just not in my genes. But reading Mastering the Art of French Cooking—childishly simple and dauntingly complex, incantatory and comforting—I thought this was what prayer must feel like.

reading was how I got my ya-yas out.

Boredom is why God invented books.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another.

To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth?

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Asakava, k?zlar? Yoko'yu dizine oturtmuÅŸ, resimli bir kitapta yaz?lanlar? okuyordu. O yaÅŸta bir bebeÄŸin, sözcüklerin ne anlama geldiÄŸini o anda anlamas? olas? deÄŸil ama zihninde yerleÅŸen sözcük say?s? ne kadar çok olursa, iki ya??na geldiÄŸi s?ralarda konuÅŸmaya baÅŸlad???nda, kullanabildiÄŸi sözcük say?s? ç?? gibi büyür.

Sie haben Freunde.« »Wir haben Bücher.«

Although only seven, she'd been reading since she was three, a fact her mother told anyone who would listen. Sarah was a voracious reader, and she'd found friends hiding between the pages of books. For her, the trips to the library meant more than the refreshing burst of air-conditioning. They were life.

Nothing goes better with a good book than a cup of hot tea and a scone.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. Both

A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers. The biggest fantasy in that book, Paul had said, is that he changes in the end.

somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.

see this with abused children sometimes, where, as a form of self-defense, they've learned to read mood and nuance better than the typical child. They absorb an incredible amount of blame to keep the peace. They are the ultimate survivors.