Quotes About Reading

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than that of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

He was evidently a young man of considerable taste in reading

Con ese libro hacía lleva­deras sus horas de ocio y se sentía consolado en las de abatimiento.

Como no la adulaban ni a ella ni a sus niños, no podía creer que fueran de buen natural; y como eran aficionadas a la lectura, las imaginaba satíricas: quizá no sabía exactamente qué era ser satírico, pero eso carecía de importancia. En el lenguaje común implicaba una censura, y la aplicaba sin mayor cuidado.

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page.

The first place I go in someone's house is their bookshelves. You can tell exactly who they are.

She was the child with the flashlight under the duvet late into every night. She would breeze through a book in a day and a half, then read it six more times.

The place she felt happiest, the place she found her solace and joy, was in the pages of books. She

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As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books--the one true love of my life when growing up.

Still, it is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

possibly because of their habit of bringing their reading matter to the dinner table and ignoring any non-bookworms present.

A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

A book? he asked. Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?

Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.

A half hour later I was back in the very same parking space, feeling much more comfortable and twice as bored. I'd brought a book back with me, but it was hard to read and sweat at the same time, and sweating took precedence.

Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. "You can read, right?" "Yep." "I always gotta ask these days.

The Bible tells us that God abhors it, too. He wants us to love and care for one another." "Does the white man know that?" "Some of them do." "Hasn't the white man had the Bible for many years?" "Yes, for many years." "Then why doesn't he read it and do what it says?" I shook my head. It was a troubling question. "I don't know," I finally admitted. "I really don't know.

Then she spent her evenings curled up in her small boardinghouse room, poring over the pages. It was her only escape to a bigger, more interesting world. There are no prison walls if one has books, she had read someplace. But even so, her days and nights often were lonely.

My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

When I first read 'Lovecraft Country' I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television.