Reading Quotes
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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
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If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.
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Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
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Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
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One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to.
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He that runs may read.
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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
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I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.
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I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.
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Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
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Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.
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I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.
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I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.
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Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
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Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
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I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
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My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.
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Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.
