Reading Quotes
A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.
I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.
It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.
Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.
The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.
The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.
Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.
The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.
A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first.
Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.
That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.
Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay}
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.
For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.
It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.
My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.
You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.
There is always a hope for the living.Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.No situations is permanent.
There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.
Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...
The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers.
