Top 1200 Libraries And Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school, and then I kept reading all of them.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision.

Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

Honestly, I think I have this narcolepsy thing with reading. I fall asleep when I'm reading. So, if I stay awake to read an entire script, I'm like, 'Wow, I need to do this.'

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

I take a lot of trains, so I love reading on the train. I get really annoyed when there are no delays, because I just want to keep reading and finish my book.

I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel most fully a person who's torn between attention and inattention, between loving and hating, between hyper-responsiveness and total dullness. Reading is not a comfortable experience for me.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories.