Quotes by Reading I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore" and "Kids! Come here, come here! This is the woman who owns the bookstore." That's incredible. I can say to that, "Thank you for shopping local. Thank you for coming in. What are you reading? Let's talk about books." It's about something I'm doing as opposed to somehow something I am. I feel comfortable and positive in that role. Because it's about reading. It's about books. It's about learning. It's about business and tax base. Ann Patchett readingkidsbook reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves. Ann Patchett readingshouldbook Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Ann Patchett importantreadingmean If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters. Ann Patchett crazyreadingart That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead." Ann Patchett storesreadingbook I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. Ann Richards realreadingbook The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. Ann Voskamp readingfireprayer If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. Anna Brackett readingplatobook History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become. Anna Brackett readinggivinghistory The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend. Anna Letitia Barbauld readingbrotherfather Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen readingbooktravel Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet. Anna Quindlen readingpeopleworld We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. Anna Quindlen readingminddream Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung. Anna Quindlen readinghomebook How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. Anna Quindlen pridereadingdream While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness. Anna Quindlen growing-uprealreading I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses. Anna Quindlen readinghandsway In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. Anna Quindlen readingbooktravel A finished person is a boring person. Anna Quindlen individualityreadingbook Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives Anna Quindlen emotionalreadingspiritual«1314151617181920212223»
