Quotes About Reading

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person, but it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

Hay muchos, muchos tipos de libros en el mundo, lo cual tiene sentido porque hay muchas, muchas clases de personas y todas quieren leer algo diferente.

Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a very good book, seeing a wonderful movie, or attending a dinner party with fascinating guests.

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book's first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Remember what you learned, years ago: You're never sorry you brought a book.

Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I read the same authors you do.

Pero un tipo de libro que a casi nadie le gusta leer es un libro sobre leyes. Los libros sobre leyes son muy largos, muy aburridos y muy difíciles. Es una de las razones por las que muchos abogados ganan tanto dinero. El dinero es un incentivo —la palabra «incentivo» significa aquí «recompensa ofrecida para que hagas algo que no quieres hacer»Ã¢â'¬â€ para leer libros largos, aburridos y difíciles.

It is difficult for me to exaggerate how much I love a library.

If only one had a little more time to do some important reading, all the secrets in the world would become clear.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.