Quotes of: Enjoy-reading Keyword

What is this thing? Did you make it?” “I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says. “You own a meth-lab,” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.

The Devil's Breath

He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

Deal Breaker

Cassie - She loved reading romances - contemporary stuff. She wasn't into fantasy. No fairytale princess and prince stories. No vampires. No werewolves. No immortal fae.

Dragon Fae

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

The Diary of a Young Girl

A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same thing. But it's exciting all over again.

Departure Time

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp".

East of Eden

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Eat, Pray, Love

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Endless Magic

So now books were her only friends. She'd read so often she could recite whole scenes by memory. It was not a skill that aided one in becoming popular.

Firefly Lane

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

Fire

It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.

Fire

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

A Familiar Rain

Visitors come and go. Daily I read tea leaves for signs of the approaching century: a raven perched on a cross a sword piercing a cloud --A Victorian Life

Forecast

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

The Forgotten Sisters

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

Falling for the Ghost of You

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.

The Ghost Downstairs

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Golem in the Gears

About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large