Quotes About Reading

Florence had made a tent of her bedding and was under it with a flashlight, reading The Little Prince.

her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.

As she got closer, Clara Morrow saw Gamache do it again. He took off his half-moon reading glasses, then

God, that means she's written more books than she's read,' said Ruth.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.

I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard.

Celý život je pre m?a ?ítanie osobnou útechou.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

the fact that I'd really like to be reading Persuasion right now instead of latticing pies, the fact that I never seem to get past Anne's first reunion with Captain Wentworth lately, because Jake interrupts, the fact that all the older kids were the same, the fact that I have to hide out like Anne Frank almost, to read anything, the fact that I should have a little closet to go to, with a chair, a lamp, and a lock on the door, the fact that I guess it's called a bathroom,

The fact that Ben has a new riddle book, and wants to entertain us all by reading out every single joke, "Why did the duck cross the road?", "To give the chicken a break.

To have output you must have input. It helps to go on a period of creative nourishment, or dolce far niente, clearing the brain. Go to bed with the cat, some flouffy pillows, tea and a book which could not in any sense be called improving. Read for fun for a change: superior Chicklit is good, or children's classics. You are not allowed to try and analyse what the author is doing. After a good sleep, go and do something new, or that you haven't done for a while....

I write because it's a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don't understand. The act of writing a book gives me the same experience that I hope reading it gives readers. It forces me to sort through the various points of view on a given issue or situation and ultimately come to a conclusion. Doing that might not change my mind, but it almost always gives me a stronger sense of why my opinion is what it is—a question we rarely ask ourselves.

I'd make a snide comment about the youths of america but I'm too impressed by the fact that she's reading something other than Fifty Shades of Grey.

But I do go in for books. I love to own books. Though I read few books twice, I have filled every shelf in my house with books, have had more shelves made and filled those too. My books surround me like a cocoon. When I run my finger along the backs of my books they feel like the ribcage of an old familiar lover. Visit my shelves and you will learn much about me.

Concerted (effortful) observation—is absolutely essential to reading people and detecting their nonverbal tells successfully.

Most people read drivel. That is their prerogative. The case can be made that it is better to read drivel than to read nothing, on the theory that people will eventually tire of garbage and move on to something more meaty, like trash.

You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?

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With great animation Heidi read the story of the prodigal son

No one knows what it is to lie here alone day after day, in silence and darkness, without hearing a voice or seeing a ray of light. Sad thoughts come over me, and I do not feel sometimes as if I could bear it any longer or as if it could ever be light again. But when you come and read those words to me, then I am comforted and my heart rejoices once more.

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.