11 quotes found
“I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.”
“When you buy a jacket, its important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!”
“If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing.”
“Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).Stolen from what?From the tyranny of living.”
“We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so little--set time, set gestures-- was like a prayer.”
“Our children start out as good readers and will remain so if the adults around them nourish their enthusiasm instead of trying to prove themselves. If we stimulate their desire to learn before maki...”
“We human beings build houses because we're alive, but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable, but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind o...”
“What we need to understand is that books weren't written so that young people could write essays about them, but so that they could read them if they really wanted to.Knowledge, academic track reco...”
“Rather than allowing a book's intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own intelligence as we talk about it. Rather than acting as emissary for the book, we become guardians...”
“Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding-- or wanting to admit-- that what a child learns first isn't the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help th...”
“The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.”
