Quotes of: Read Keyword

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

The Akhenaten Adventure

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor

How to Read Slowly

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

I am an Emotional Creature

Goodreads.com could be read Good Reads, or it could be read Goo Dreads. Of course, it couldn’t be the latter, because who dreads goo?

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

My Reading Life

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life

He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

Stefan Zweig

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.

Karen Glass

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Mark Haddon

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

John Sladek

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came f...

Robert Reed

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Jodi Picoult

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Isaac Asimov

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read w...

Walter Dean Myers