Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.
You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
A multitude of books distracts the mind.
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.
When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.
I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months the only person I saw was my trainer. Every day I did a lot of running and I just didn’t want to talk to anyone for two months. So when I started talking again, it was like you would communicate wrongly, like you wouldn’t really remember how to speak. That was one of the key things as well as just reading the book, reading the script a million times, just figuring things out.
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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