Reading Quotes
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.
At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.