554 Quotes About Reading-books

Reading is the author's gift from the reader. Writing is the reader's gift from the author.

Yes, I still believe a topsy-turvy posture boosts the absorption of literature.

From inside the thick of her grief, Lydia read. She read without lifting her eyes...only pausing when the ache in her shoulder or the pins and needles in her foot forced her to lift her eyes from the page, shift the pillows and turn the other way. Then her gaze would fall on the wallpaper with its pattern of roses and she would blink and wonder where in the world she was. Then, as she started to remember, thank God, there was the book, and she would slip under again, a sigh in her throat.

The reader should be able to imagine himself inhabiting the house, walking the streets, sitting by the river. All the writer needs to achieve this isthe real expression of his tangible imaginations on a piece of paper.

Reading was one of the few things she felt she was truly good at, one of the few things she prided herself on.

Sapeva leggere. Fu la scoperta più importante di tutta la sua vita. Sapeva leggere. Possedeva l’antidoto contro il terribile veleno della vecchiaia.

Yes, we want a country that reads, we want a world that reads, but the content and quality of what you are reading is as vital as reading itself!

Reading one page of a book and implementing is much better than reading the book to completion and doing nothing.Books are meant to be used.

I wasn't a big reader growing up, much to the dismay of my scholarly parents. My father once risked his life in a plane crash because he refused to slide down the emergency exit without first grabbing his books. He was the last passenger to exit the plane, clinging to his bag of books. But I didn't inherit my father's addiction to reading. I had always been too antsy to sit still with a book. Or to sit still at all! Until one day, I wasn't.