645 quotes found
“What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.”
“like traveling without knowing what country you’re going to”
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s 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...”
“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...”
“YOU’RE READING. That’s what the sexy people do.”
“Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life.”
“A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or ‘non compos mentis’ (“no power of the mind”) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external dete...”
“Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.”
“The look you get when you’re reading in your van, and your feet are up and you sit so still, and your face is alight, and I don’t know where you are; you could be anywhere, so far away, off in a pa...”
“She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.”
“Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.”
“There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.”
“But one day he said to me:‘I’ve got it now. It’s reading isn’t it?’‘I’m sorry?’‘You read a lot, don’t you? That’s where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.’The next time I saw him he had a H...”
“Arriving back home, I didn’t start to read it. I pretended I didn’t have it, in order to have, later, the shock of discovering it. I opened it hours later, had a few marvelous lines, closed it agai...”
“The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
“I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.”
“Our children start out as good readers and will remain so if the adults around them nourish their enthusiasm instead of trying to prove themselves. If we stimulate their desire to learn before maki...”
“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.”
