In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
Libraries are our friends.
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
Rule one of reading other people’s stories is that whenever you say ‘well that’s not convincing’ the author tells you that’s the bit that wasn’t made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading – do not discourage children from reading because you feel they’re reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
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.
You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don’t mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.