Quotes of: Worth-reading Keyword

How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

Injustice For All

We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.

The Summer We Read Gatsby

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

...he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

Mohawk

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

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

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.

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

hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light

Literature - Reading, Fiction, Poetry & Drama 6th edition

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.

The Living

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

M: Writings '67-'72

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

The Summer Without Men

The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!

Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

I’d like to write gibberish in Latin, because if people aren’t going to be able to read it, they might as well not read it in a dead language.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

There are a few things I've learned over the years. One is that time doesn't stop for anyone; hurdling forward and onward, unstoppable and catastrophic.

Perdida: Essays to Be Read While Intoxicated

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

The Prince of Tides

People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Remember this, - where there is life there is hope. You're alive. Embrace this, because YOU CAN DO ANYTHING while there is breath in your body.

By The Time You Read This