Reading Quotes - Page 15

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.

I just need to sit, think, write and read.

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn't start or would never end.

People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect, it must be properly introduced.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else’s past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times.

I can hear the library humming in the night,
a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
each one stitched into his own private coat,
together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and the cure would have been radical, if disappointment in love, and total solitude, had not conspired to bring on a relapse.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

it's doesn't matter how long you spend the time writing words ,
the only thing that matter ,
is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader .

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing-and reading-is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone.