Quotes of: Enjoy-reading Keyword

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

A Stranger in Mayfair

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Soul Music

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

Stolen Inheritance - A True Story of Oil, Army and Murder

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don’t.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The Stormy Petrel

I keep a list of our differences. The good news is there’s only one item. The bad news is that the one item reads: Everything.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

The Solitary Summer

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The Slippery Slope

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Super Sad True Love Story

Matt is grinning at me like I'm the new Christmas toy he really wanted, but can't play with yet because he hasn't read the instructions.

That Boy

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

Two Dogs At The One Dog Inn

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Okay for Now

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Poor Richard's Almanack

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

The Princess Bride

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The Portrait of a Lady

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

Pandemonium