Quotes About Reading

Allmen musste ein Buch, das er einmal angefangen hatte, zu Ende lesen, selbst wenn es noch so schlecht war. Er tat dies nicht aus Respekt dem Autor gegenüber, sondern aus Neugier. Er glaubte, dass jedes Buch ein Geheimnis habe, und sei es auch nur die Antwort auf die Frage, weshalb es geschrieben wurde.

I'm a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading

You don't read for understanding, you read for excitement. Understanding is a product of excitement.

The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.

Words are so wonderful to read, so nourishing to the mind. But really! It's just a fantasy. One doesn't eat words! one reads them

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.

A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

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

He sincerely believed that the closest one could come to objective truth was reading and listening and trying to understand as many viewpoints as possible.

Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book that when she looked up she found that it was half-past midnight and she had spun for half an hour on the Sabbath Day. Back then, that counted as a major sin.

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

And millions of books," said Annie.

If only the clouds would lift, and she could sit down and read, she knew that she would feel better at once.

It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.

In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,

Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.