The Babar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember reading it as a small Boy and enjoying it and imagining that I was friends with Babar, his constant Companion during all of his adventures. He went t...
Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?' 'I should think so,' said Henry. 'What think you of him?' 'Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreover, what is more admirable - in such a manner th...
Jack Walsh: Oh Marvin, you did it this time! Marvin Dorfler: What the fuck are you talking about? Jack Walsh: Those were hired killers back there! Marvin Dorfler: Hired to kill who? Jack Walsh: [pointing to Mardukas] Hired to kill this guy! Jonathan ...
[first lines] Luke: Echo Three to Echo Seven. Han, old buddy, do you read me? Han Solo: Loud and clear, kid. What's up? Luke: Well, I finished my circle. I don't pick up any life readings. Han Solo: There isn't enough life on this ice cube to fill a ...
Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca: I didn't know you want to be a writer. What are you going to write about, "fine boys"? Tenoch: No, about faggots like you. Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca: Well, let me tell you that there is a big difference between wr...
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...
What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered fact. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-grade spelling, what grade am I?" The teacher laugh...
I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how ...
One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?
It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.
Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
Don't read it. Just shred and burn, or your eyes will melt.
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.
