Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
Whenever I’m reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?
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.
I’ve nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
I read everywhere. It’s like a bodily function. I don’t need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn’t require a lot of brainpower.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.