Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]

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• Books

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

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• Books

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

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• Humor

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

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• Humor

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

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• Writing

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

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• Books

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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• Life

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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• Books

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

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• Books

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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• Books

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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• Books

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

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• Books

A word after a word after a word is power.

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• Writing

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

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• Knowledge

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

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• Books

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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• Education

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

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• Books

As always, one of her books was next to her.

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• Books

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

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• Books

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

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• Books

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

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• Humor

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

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• Writing

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

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• Books

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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• Humor

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

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• Books

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

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• Books

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

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• Books

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

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• Inspirational

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

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• Writing