645 quotes found
“So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme a...”
“No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: theres always something to be learned. Its just that, every now and again, you hit a patch of reading t...”
“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”
“Reading is more important than writing.”
“I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.”
“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've n...”
“You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everythin...”
“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else Im doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicureanreading is ple...”
“Fiction is life by design.”
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From t...”
“Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.”
“...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.”
“Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasnt drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly ...”
“The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.”
“Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in th...”
“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.”
“I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.”
“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get beyond the out...”
“If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You will recognize feelings that have physical signs - increased heart rate, sweaty...”
“I love reading I know its very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.”
