123 Quotes About Reading-for-life

Das mit dem Sport üben wir nochmal, hm?", kommentierte er trocken, während er seinen Wohnungsschlüssel hervorzog. Ich richtete mich auf und gab ihm einen Stoß gegen die Schulter. "Was willst du von mir? Meine sportlichen Aktivitäten beschränken sich darauf, beim Lesen die Seiten umzublättern." Und Messer zu werfen.

Deep reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.

Reading leads to a lifetime of learning

The mind that asks and experiments and evaluates will die one day, but will provide a richer life for its owner. The mind that does nothing but rest inside the brain doesn't sidestep the puddle. It's sitting in it.

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

...the way such teaching should come to us is, here a little and there a little, incidentally, from books which we read for the interest of the story, the beauty of the poem, or the grace of the writing.

The most precious thing working with authors (and writing my own books) has given me is freedom. I work hard—not that it feels like work—but it’s on my terms. And I haven’t had to submit a time-off request to my new boss…well, ever.

I am a part of everything that I have read

You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you’ve finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn’t understand before, in order to understand life.