Quotes About Reading

She had learned to read before kindergarten, when she'd first suspected that her parents weren't all that interested in her.

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

If you were a girl who loved above all to read and write and who could not imagine an adulthood in which these activities did not hold a central place, you probably knew even before puberty that you were headed for conflict.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism

That books should provide for learning, but that they should also provide for enjoyment

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.

Life Is to short to read book I am not enjoying

We live in a world of increasing alienation, where meeting the right person for life grows harder and harder. Why would we want to spend our free time reading about this grim reality? I have spent many happy months escaping into the writing of my feel-good world of Happy Ever Afters. And what is wrong with that? It makes people feel good. I'm not selling anyone a lie.

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on the wind... Not words on the mind.

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud—it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent and every adult caring for a child read aloud three stories a day to the children in their lives ,we would probably wipe out illiteracy in one generation" Reading Magic Mem Fox

Read-aloud sessions are times when parents and children fall in love with each other. (Reading Magic)

Whatever happens in the world of school, continuing to read aloud to our children at home should solve most reading problems and will always be a lifeline to their happiness, their literacy, and their future. (Reading Magic)

Ensinar a ler é sempre ensinar a transpor o imediato. é ensinar a escolher entre sentidos visíveis e sentidos invisíveis. é ensinar a pensar no sentido original da palavra "pensar" que significava "curar ou "tratar" um ferimento.

Se permanecesse imóvel por um tempo, aconteceria o inverso daquilo que ela esperava: as letras é que começariam a olhar para ela. E iriam segredar-lhe histórias. Tudo aquilo parecem desenhos, mas dentro das letras estão vozes. Ao lermos não somos o olho; somos o ouvido.

Ebook readers might cause problems. This has become a controversial topic as more and more people use and love ereaders. A close friend of mine doesn't go anywhere without her Kindle and will probably be buried with it. A Wolf, she was dismayed when I shared the findings of a new Harvard Medical School study:23 reading an ebook in the hour before bed delayed sleep more than reading a print book under normal lamplight, and it also increased sleep inertia the next day.

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.