645 quotes found
“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”
“Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.”
“Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.”
“...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has no...”
“It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.”
“I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.”
“Reading is dreaming with open eyes”
“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”
“...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled l...”
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
“Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances”
“Books are absent teachers.”
“Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and yo...”
“I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.”
“We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for...”
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of idleness.'But are you under the impression that you have so great a mind that you ...”
“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those...”
“It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask...”
“Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, ...”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
