Reading Quotes
I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams
If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.
She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?''Every single time.
Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.
Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.
Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page
I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.
There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...
I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people's minds about what was possible or tolerable.
When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.
Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.
The Book CharmYour Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared
Books, ' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same thing. But it's exciting all over again.
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".
A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.
As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.
The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.
They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them.
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.
Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.
There was nothing as romantic as the feel of a book in your hands.
