Quotes About Reading

O tempo fica cada vez mais lento e eu lendo lendo lendo vou acabar virando lenda

Ler trevas. Nas letras, ler tudo o que de ler não te atrevas. Ler mais. Ler além. Além do bem. Além do mal. Além do além.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card." [ Arthur ]

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

Read good, big important things.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

Read everything and be kind.

Así descubría la virtud paradójica de la lectura que consiste en abstraernos del mundo para hallarle un sentido

Il tempo per leggere, come il tempo per amare, dilata il tempo per vivere

Teenagers want to read - if we let them.

A book isn't rigorous if students aren't reading it.

Habits of an empowerED teacher: "read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn't magic, it's just slow, creative work.

What are you reading, Nanny?' 'Pride and Prejudice. Such a stupid book. I've read it twice. Can't see why anyone bothers with it.

Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above the stormy mist of sensations which are my habitual place of abode. I have lately been composing a poem on Keats; it is better than anything I have yet written and worthy both of him and of me.

There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.

She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Bibliotherapy is a term that describes the very real process of being positively and therapeutically influenced by what you read. As stated earlier, when it is at its most powerful, bibliotherapy is also relationally healing. It can rescue you from the common Cptsd feeling of abject isolation and alienation.

And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.