Quotes About Reading

Lou había acabado ejerciendo su profesión porque le encantaba leer. Cayó en la cuenta, mientras curioseaba por las grandes estanterías, de lo poco que leía ahora. Trabajaba sobre todo con papeles indescifrables y mapas sobrescritos. En lo que a libros concernía, solo se ocupaba de su exterior. Aquí tendría tiempo para leer

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

in which letters are written / not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand / but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

But I know, at least, that you would keep a library on the subject, and I hoped that I might be allowed to read from it." He regarded me with a bemused expression. "You want me for my library.

Just as Manda Lewis's impressions of the world had been informed by her reading-- leading her to expect balls, duels, and conveniently timed thunderstorms out of life-- so, too, had mine; but what I expected was intellectual commerce between equals.

Running records capture what young readers say and do while reading continuous text, usually short stories or books. Having taken the record teachers can review what happened immediately, leading to teaching decisions on the spot, or at a later time as they plan for next lessons.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

Books + friendship = book club

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

I have read your book and much like it.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.