645 quotes found
“What Im suggesting then is that much of our response to novels may have to do with the kind of system or conversation we grew up in and within which we had to find a position and establish an ident...”
“Be calm. Keep reading.”
“Listening to someone read aloud is very different from reading in silence. When you read, you can stop or skip sentences: you are the one who sets the pace. When someone else is reading, it is diff...”
“For at eight oclock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.”
“You can Save Time with Writing but you can Save a Life by Reading.”
“Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.”
“Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, weve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our t...”
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the g...”
“I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My airplane reading would often be centered on themes. On some flights I would read only newspapers a...”
“Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.”
“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great imp...”
“It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.”
“Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.”
“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our...”
“Reading is solitude.”
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.”
“They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.”
“These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year Ive been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time I thought it, I ju...”
“Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encou...”
