Explore Quotes on Reading

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. _x000D__x000D_One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

These figures emphasize how soft people's commitment to God is. Americans are willing to expend some energy in religious activities such as attending church and reading the Bible, and they are willing to throw some money in the offering basket, but when it comes time to truly establishing their priorities and making a tangible commitment to knowing and loving God, most people stop short.

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of our separate and common experience. The sisterhood (including the boilers - the old chooks!) is important to me. The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk taking and hard work.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.