Quotes About Reading

Reading books for pleasure, of course, is the greatest joy. No need to underline, press on, try out mentally summarizing or evaluating phrases. One is free to read as a child reads—no duties, no goals, no responsibilities, no clock ticking: pure rapture.

There is no greater pleasure than to lie between clean sheets, listen to music, and read under a strong light.

Other writers, especially the ones you admire, can steer you to good books.

That's one of the problems—and joys—of old age: every time you read a book it's the first.

AUTHORS SHOULD BE READ BUT NOT SEEN; RARELY ARE THEY A WINSOME SIGHT.

It was eight years since publication of The Riddle of the Sands, but people still read it. "Do you fear war too?

Let us read with method, and to propose to ourselves an to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I've read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I'll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

If I'm working very hard, which is very seldom, the last thing I want to do in order to relax is to be with people and babbling away and so forth. So I go to the movies or read a book or watch any of my thousands of tapes upstairs.

That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello! magazine.

The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My airplane reading would often be centered on themes. On some flights I would read only newspapers and magazines, catching up on one particular event. On other flights I would read a short novel, and finishing the entire book during the flight would give me a great thrill, as if I'd just flown a cross-Atlantic mission with Amelia Earhart.

AS IN CORPORAL distempers a total loss of appetite, which no medicines can restore, forebodes certain decay and death; so in the spiritual life of the soul, a neglect or disrelish of pious reading and instruction is a most fatal symptom.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

leí ene, incluso cosas densas como Lafourcade o el Pablo Huneeus

Demuestre que usted es un autor «inteligente»; en esa forma nadie sabrá que es inteligente de verdad, cosa peligrosísima. Téngalo en cuenta: muchas personas leen solamente los títulos. Después compran la obra y la archivan en sus bibliotecas per sécula. Si no se esmera, perderá el treinta y cinco por ciento de los lectores.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

I wanted to live among books.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.