645 quotes found
“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 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...”
“Thats why people use terms like flow or effortless to describe writing that they regard as really superb. Theyre not saying effortless in terms of it didnt seem like the writer spent any work. It s...”
“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...”
“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.”
“In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.”
“When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.”
“Always remember, any book you havent read is still a new book.”
“Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.”
“For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and ear...”
“If You have a good reading habit, then you become a good thinker”
“a good philosopher always have great reading ability.”
“When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.”
“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.”
“Begin to read.”
“It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.”
“I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.”
