Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading – I like reading books in the bulk.
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn’t tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.
Well, I’m very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.
Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
In reading, one should notice and fondle details.
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading.
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.