Quotes About Reading

One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she was out so early and she answered that there were too many books and far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

as Childs points out, we first need to hear the "discrete voice" of the OT, we must then go on to read the OT from a post-Christ perspective.

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felt increasingly bleary as a result of his late-night visits to the library. He could not help creeping downstairs to read each night, though. The temptation was too strong

You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

I looked at him curiously. 'I thought you only read non-fiction and Terry Pratchett?' 'I ran out of anything to read in the hospital and it was that or a lot of ditsy novels about cupcakes and fairy-wing repair shops by the beach.' 'I don't think I've come across the fairy-wing repair shop one,' I mused. 'Probably not: I made it up.' 'Maybe you should write it?' I suggested, then reverted back to the subject in hand.

Those who don't read should not lead.

Magazine journalism is worth remembering. They're mostly gone now, but for a long time magazines played a significant role in the life of the country. If you wanted to understand what the rest of the world was like, you read magazines.

His intense joy — so much to read! Surely everything he could wish for had to be in here, all the answers to all his questions — warred with deep, paralyzing anxiety. How would he ever learn all this?

On the contrary," she said. "I see this really awesome future where I go back inside and drink tea by the fire and read a scroll about funny scavenger antics for the rest of the day and also, by the way, stay completely dry. That one is definitely winning right now.

urrrgggh, whyyyyy, narwhals are heaaaaavy and I'm reeeeeeeading,' and you'd say, 'but I want one! right now!' and I'd say, 'then go GET one, bossytail,' and you'd bellow, 'I AM YOUR QUEEN!' and I'd be like, 'yes, but this book is at a really exciting part though,' and theeeeen you'd probably have me executed.

She wished she could be out in the sunshine with a book and a kitten

She really really REALLY wished she'd brought a book with her.

I'm at a really good part," she said apologetically, holding up her book.

Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.

Like most sailors, he is widely ignorant outside his own profession; he has indeed read a certain amount, more than most of his kind, but late reading, useless as a foundation; he is convinced that no one else has ever done so, and he is a fountain of gratuitous instruction. A want of modesty: a fine fund of self-complacence.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

In many deceits the victim overlooks the liar's mistakes, giving ambiguous behavior the best reading, collusively helping to maintain the lie, to avoid the terrible consequences of uncovering the lie.