Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
It’s strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that’s kind of how it felt.
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
I’m less worried about accomplishment – as younger people always can’t help but be – and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don’t understand that. Gosh.
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.
Bible reading is an education in itself.
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.