He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn’t bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
If I’m engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.
Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts.
Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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