645 quotes found
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while ...”
“God, how I still love private readers. Its what we all used to be. ”
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electron...”
“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”
“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”
“To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.”
“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.”
“How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.”
“I dont have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomesand they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people dont think jokes even belo...”
“Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, wri...”
“The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author.”
“There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it”
“Oh, magic hour when a child first knows it can read printed words! For quite a while, Francie had been spelling out letters, sounding them and then putting the sounds together to mean a word. But, ...”
“In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.”
“I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. Non...”
“God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld ...”
“People do not read stupidities with impunity.”
“When getting my nose in a bookCured most things short of school,It was worth ruining my eyesTo know I could still keep cool,And deal out the old right hookTo dirty dogs twice my size.Later, with in...”
