Reading Quotes
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You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
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When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our kids, and we all want to just tell our kids, "This is really bad. Don't you know that? Can't you see that?"
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Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.
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I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void?
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Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
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I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.
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Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
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A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
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Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
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Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn.
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The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.
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At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
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For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
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That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
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I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
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Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom
