Quotes About Reading

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

I spent the morning reading, my Lady.' 'And what were you reading?' 'Mr Wilkie Collins's No Name, my Lady.' She looked at me sourly.

What did you do this morning, Alice?' she asked when I entered, picking up a copy of Phoebus Daunt's Epimetheus,* which had recently become a particular favourite of hers. 'I spent the morning reading, my Lady.' 'And what were you reading?' 'Mr Wilkie Collins's No Name, my Lady.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

Çocuklar gibi kendinizi e?lendirmek ya da h?rsl?lar gibi ya?ama dair talimat bulma amac?yla okumay?n. Hay?r, ya?amak için okuyun." - Flaubert

We gaan er altijd van uit dat lezen gemakkelijk is omdat we de techniek die we zo lang geleden hebben geleerd, vergeten zijn en het nu voortdurend zonder nadenken doen. Als een boek dus moeilijk lijkt, moet dat eerder de schuld van het boek zijn dan van de lezer.

Absalom, Absalom! uses the fractured mind of a boy who seems already half-ghost to present the family history of "the son who widowed the daughter who had not yet been a bride." No one can read it quickly or even entirely with pleasure, but anyone who can hear its flowered dissonance will know that such books are why we read at all.

In fact, if you step outside on a sunny day, there's enough light reaching your brain that you could actually read this page inside your skull.

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.

One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

We enjoy doing science; why shouldn't we enjoy reading it?

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

It is important that we know that we don't know when we're absorbing information. Meta-cognition is, "knowing about knowing". The common mistake that we make is we still continue to read when we no longer understand the context.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

Nothing the human can read is more interesting than you. Therefore, when the human picks up a book, magazine, or newspaper, you may best assist him or her by interposing your magnificent Self between the page and humanity.

You start by reading books, and you end by loving them

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

When you notice people dealing with the concrete realities of their lives through the practices of prayer and holy reading, it is a clue you have entered a culture of discipleship.