Quotes About Reading

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

I'd never read anything like these texts, which taught me that literature demands concentration but pays you back in compound interest.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

The philosopher has a duty,... in reading scientific texts, to combine semantic tolerance with semantic criticism—to accept in practice what he denounces as a matter of principle, namely, the confusions that result from illegitimately converting correlations into identifications.

Lezen is een soort handgemeen tussen lezer en boek. Het is een strijd. (...) Het is een afstandelijke houding, waarin ik leer de ruimte van mijn verbeelding te vergroten, alsof ik bepaalde rollen uitprobeer. Dat is een oefening in vrijheid en geeft aan mijn eigen levensovertuiging een zekere soepelheid en groothartigheid. Door op deze manier andere wegen uit te proberen, scheppen we opnieuw ruimte om onze houding te overwegen.

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.

Private, visual reading and private composition thus encouraged individual critical thinking and contributed ultimately to the development of skepticism and intellectual heresy.

For when your labor is all done, And you've done all your reckonings, You hasten home without delay, And, just as dumb as any stone, You sit and read another book Until completely dazéd is your look.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.

Solo leemos verdaderamente a fondo lo que leemos por motivos personales. Puede ser que busquemos conseguir algún poder. Puede ser, simplemente, que odiemos al autor.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

A useful guideline is to limit to three the numbers in a sentence—three seems to be all the reader's brain can

She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.

Much better he should read for the first half of his life and then live for the next half. That's the proper sequence to know what you're doing. Nowadays, they start off by living and never get around to reading – it explains the mess we're all in.

He read aloud to me as I curled next to him, both of our bodies in a warm arc of light. For nearly ten years I'd wanted this…this exactly. Is he really here? I thought. Am I? Denys read on, his voice rising and falling, while a leopard moth that had got caught in the curtains stopped struggling for a moment, and realized it was free.

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

In old age her voice had become thin as a bird's, but her reading was still beautiful to him.

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it's no different for me if I am read­ing poetry or if I am reading Marx. I try to get the beauty in the very act of reading, you see. This is for me something that many times teachers don't try to do.

Ler, não é caminhar sobre as letras, mas interpretar o mundo e poder lançar sua palavra sobre ele, interferir no mundo pela ação.