Quotes About Reading

And Juan Diego had selected this particular book because it was in English; he'd wanted more practice reading English, though his less-than-rapt audience (Lupe and Rivera and the disagreeable dog Dirty White) might have understood him better en español.

But Brother Pepe put reading on a pedestal; he was a Jesuit because the Jesuits had made him a reader and introduced him to Jesus, not necessarily in that order. It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more.

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying.

book is always in motion – from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading

The day women stop reading—that's the day the novel dies!" the

Wit isn't tentative; therefore, neither is it young. Wit is one of many aspects of life and literature that is far easier to recognize onstage than in a book. My students are always missing the wit in what they read, or else they do not trust it; onstage, even an amateur actor can make anyone see what wit is.

Then the snowshoer explained how he never drove anywhere in the beetle without what he called an emergency novel. If I drive off the road and am lying upside down in a ditch, unable to move my legs or get out of the car, I want to have something good to read. ? John Irving, The Last Chairlift

Loving long novels plays havoc with going to school

Pop used to say he hated to take time from books to earn a living. Man's never lonely with a book in his pocket, he'd say. Books gives a man ten thousand friends. Some are smart, some are funny, some are just pleasant for passing the time, but they're all good.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

I should like the window to open onto the Lake of Geneva--and there I'd sit and read all day like the picture of somebody reading.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

les exigí que leyesen Guerra y paz hasta la última página.

The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

There have been conversations here in the United States about why every ex-President opens a library when politicians do not read the books. Hello, America! Kind of explains your politics. For me, reading saved me, it brought me back.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.