Quotes About Reading

Time to wake up." Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, "What is the groundnut better known as?" Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn't be disturbed. "The peanut.

We 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.

She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

I myself am usually to be found lying on the bed imitating the dead Chatterton, killing time by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds i´ve discovered so far).

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

Viola was a good reader, a bookworm—a phrase she hated. "How can a worm be a nice thing to be?" Viola said. I would be a worm, Nancy thought, if that was the only existence on offer, and then laughed at herself for having reached such a pass. "Without worms we wouldn't be able to grow food and everyone would starve," Nancy said reasonably.

Martin couldn't imagine a world where there was no time to read.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?