Reading Quotes - Page 37

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Lloyd Alexander

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Theodore Roosevelt

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Patrick Rothfuss

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Albert Einstein

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Anthony Trollope

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Mary Ann Shaffer

Reading brings us unknown friends

Honoré de Balzac

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

Christian Bauman

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.

Thea Dorn

You’ve read the books?”“I’ve seen the movies.”Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”“I’m not really a book person.”“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Pratchett

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Napoléon Bonaparte

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Atwood H. Townsend

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

We read to know we're not alone.

William Nicholson

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Margaret Fuller

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

...human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.

...the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

Robert A. Heinlein

Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

A good reading strengthens the soul.

Toba Beta

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Renewal of mind begins with mediation on the word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Bible is a book that every Christian should read, listen to, or have read to him or her throughout his or her lifetime; however, in the event that God has gifted a person with the characteristic for the utter joy that envelopes some during times of, what they would describe as, “pleasure reading” (an often times rare characteristic), it is only acceptable that he or she (particularly) reads His Holy Word at least once during his or her lifetime. At least, that’s what I think.

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