645 quotes found
“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”
“Read what gives you delightat least most of the timeand do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, dont make t...”
“And read read all the time read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.”
“Most of my reading is rereading.”
“...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.”
“Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.”
“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension. Sometimes the city speaks to the page, or the page seems t...”
“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing ...”
“She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.”
“As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; t...”
“Go to hell, I'm reading!”
“I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.”
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to -...”
“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives profoundly different from mine, of a taste opposite to mine, where I find nothing o...”
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. ”
“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”
“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.”
“This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.”
