645 quotes found
“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need ...”
“Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the adventure inside you found yourself partaking in something wond...”
“By reading can make you more clever”
“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.”
“A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential”
“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . . . ] This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you r...”
“This consists in not taking a book into ones hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time such as political or religious pamphlets, novels, poetry, and the like, which make a...”
“What did they want from it? Lechery, smut, confirmation of their worst suspicions. But perhaps some of them wanted, despite themselves, to be seduced. Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps...”
“Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether.”
“Sometimes, when you least expect it, you become the girl in the woods. You lose your name because another one is forced on you. You think you are alone until you find books about girls like you. Sa...”
“YOURE READING. Thats what the sexy people do.”
“I read so I can enjoy my life and another.”
“Those who do not read are at the mercy of those who do.”
“It seems that one ought to read in two ways: 1) because of a particular and personal interest, which makes the thing one's own, regardless of what other people think of the book 2) to a certain ext...”
“Reading is better than life. Without reading, youre stuck with life.”
“A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofo...”
“To read is to truly escape from oneself”
“I read. That's my form of travel.”
“People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.”
