Quotes About Reading

Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don't forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.

Damals fing ich auch an, alles was ich las, entstellt zu lesen. Wenn irgendwo stand >Sommermoden<, habe ich gelesen >Sommermorde<. [...] Die neuen Wintermorde sind angekommen, sie werden schon in den wichtigsten Mordhäusern vorgeführt.

Asl?nda kötü bir al??kanl?kt?r okumak, öteki bütün kötü al??kanl?klar?n yerini tutabilecek ya da onlar?n yerine herkesi daha bir yoÄŸun biçimde yaÅŸamaya itebilecek bir al??kanl?kt?r, delicesine bir yaÅŸam biçimidir, insan? yiyip bitiren bir tutkudur. Hay?r, uyuÅŸturucu kullanm?yorum, kitaplar? kullan?yorum...

Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.

was entitled Somebody Else Is on the Moon. The author's name was George Leonard. I spent the next few hours reading it, and then re-read it two more times.

But any reading of bubble-gum wrappers from above 200 miles is marvelous, of course, and a definite kudo for science and technology.

Quand je lis quelque chose je suis frappée tout de suite par peut-être une certaine vérité dedans n'est ce pas ? Quelque chose de sincère, et c'est pas nécessaire que c'est tragique ou un drame ca peut être aussi une comédie mais il faut avoir quelque chose de vraie.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment.

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality.... Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

They [sensing types] will not skim in reading, and they hate to have people skim in conversation. Believing that matters inferred are not as reliable as matters explicitly stated, they are annoyed when you leave things to their imagination. (Intuitives are often annoyed—if not actually bored—when you do not.)

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.

There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of books we have read and that have really counted for us, and half of books we propose to read and presume will come to count—leaving a section of empty shelves for surprises and occasional discoveries

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

La lettura è solitudine. Si legge da soli anche quando si è in due.