Quotes About Reading

Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits.

The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from the open book of his heart.

One of the happiest days of my life was when my mother wrote a note to the public librarians saying 'Let her check out anything she wants'...I'd read everything we had at home by the time I was ten. So I read my way through the Flagstaff Public Library.

I couldn't think how long it had been since I had read a novel. And in the daytime! Feeling pleasantly wicked, I sat by the open window in my surgery and resolutely entered a world far from my own.

No, lady. But I do read faces, and Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "And mine's an open book. I know," I said, resigned.

Do you think that the size of the book is justified by the complexity of the story? Grey asked, leaning forward to light a charoot from the candle on the sideboard. It must after all be a great expense to the publisher, as well as requiring a substantial effort from the reader, a book of that length?

I willna be reading the man's love letters," he said firmly. "Even a plotter must scruple at something.

Que todo el mundo se calle —ordenó con firmeza—. Voy a leer.

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

I don't have a problem with athletes speaking up, but I want to make sure before they speak up, they read up.

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.