Reading Quotes - Page 39

• It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Book, Heart

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• For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Writing, Imagination

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• As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Teacher, Writing, Kids

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• I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Book, Reality

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• Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.

  Donalyn Miller

  Encouragement, Book, Years

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.177, John Wiley & Sons

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• Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.

  Rett MacPherson

  Water, Chocolate, Bread

  Rett MacPherson (2007). “A Misty Mourning”, p.108, Macmillan

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• From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.

  George Saunders

  Love You, Kids, Two

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• If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Kids, Parent, Reader

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• A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

  Bill Bruford

  Rocks, Guy, Band

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• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Writing, People

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

  Dan Barber

  Biographers

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• The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Short Love, Fiction, Stories

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• Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

  Cecil Castellucci

  Stupid, Book, Boys

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• I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

  George Eliot

  Nice, Book, Home

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.37, 谷月社

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• In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

  Oliver Sacks

  Writing, Musical, Brain

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• Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences?...Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think that it's all actually happening...Would you plug in?

  Robert Nozick

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Romance, Grace

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• I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Men, Important, Small Pleasures

  "Nude Men". Book by Amanda Filipacchi, 1993.

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• Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

  Nicole Lapin

  Sexy, Book, Adventure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

  David Samuels

  People, Silence, Tolerance

  David Samuels (2008). “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”

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• Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off. . . . [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Witty, Moving, Reflection

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• So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on “for company,” or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.

  Karen Kingston

  Ideas, People, Sick

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.177, Harmony

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• All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

  Aurora Rose Reynolds

  Stupid, Book, Fire

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• As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Hippie, Book, Boys

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.

  Lindi Ortega

  Country, Hero, Nashville

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