Reading - Quotes
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Consider the phenomenon of reading, that most mysterious of acts. It is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another`s skin; another`s voice; another`s soul.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
It`s incredible, isn`t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.