Quotes About Reading

W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you just read, your worldview--your understanding, your compassion for others, your ability to engage intelligently with others--has expanded a little. Books help us grow….

He was reading . I was struck dumb with amazement.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

What's next on your reading list?

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most of all, it ceases to be intimate. It degenerates into a monologue or a mutter. An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance. Without reviews, literature would be oddly mute in spite of all those words on all those pages of all those books. Reviewing makes of reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.

Not erotic life, but the pleasure of the mind filling like the lower chamber of an hourglass with the slow-moving grains of a perfect day—sky, carnations, walking, reading, writing, Toasted Cheese, the presence of another who wishes to be so still, so silent too.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.

i don't really read as much but i am reading a depressing book on the holocaust....

Doctrine should come from the Bible and it should never be that we prove our doctrine from the Bible, but rather that the Bible compels us to adopt our beliefs. Our measure of whether we are doing this or not? Probably, as teachers of the saints, you might check to see where you are doing most of your reading. Is it in the latest book of the favorite creed? Or are you doing enough Bible reading to show it is the center of all your doctrine?

I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay peacefully by the Stour, well upstream of the rhythmic creaking and the exhortation, reading Lily Christine and Gibbon and gossiping with kindred lotus-eaters under the willow-branches.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it." [ Patrick Ness slams library cuts ( The Guardian , 23 June 2011)]

A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its own, too. He looks at the cover again. A satyr playing pan pipes, far more innocent-looking than when it got up to in the story. A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while. "And then it's over," he says.

Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new chapter. The way your bookmark -fancy, modest, scrap paper, candy wrapper -moved through the width of it, marking your progress, a little further each time you folded it shut.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.

More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.

But an exceptionally clever student could take a book out-side, thus bettering himself without fear of lessening his much-loved faculty of sight.

El poder de su visión era tal que podía leer los corazones de los hombres como si fueran libros de gruesas letras.

Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

Gdziekolwiek spojrze?, szerzy si? zaraza. Ludzie czytaj? ksi??ki, nawet kobiety.

A seance?" asked Demeter. "Not quite as scientific as reading entrails, but it couldn't hurt.

Wisp had shared with us during his membership drive that there were over 4,800 volumes in that room alone, and he had read every one of them. Another advantage to being immortal was the chance to really catch up on your reading.

There's many benefits from a good read, just as some must sing a lungful of psalm, or take the bottle down from the shelf.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.