Quotes of: Reads Keyword

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Learning to Pray

Read works which glorify God—not so that you can change what others think about you, but so that you may get closer to Him!

Life Quotes

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

The Last Resort

Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.

Little Women

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

The Luxe

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

My Teacher is an Alien

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides; maybe all sides are man!

Math City

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