Darkover Reading Quotes

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. ~ William Godwin

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. ~ Aman Jassal

In reading you must pursue to become a creator. ~ Aman Jassal

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. ~ Aman Jassal

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. ~ Aman Jassal

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. ~ Aman Jassal

The point of reading is not reading but living. Reading helps you live with greater appreciation, keener insight and heightened emotional awareness. ~ Steve Leveen

Every reading is a misreading. ~ Phyllis Rose

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it ~ James Bryce

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books. ~ Michael Kruger

It's what you're reading that matters, and how you're reading it, not the speed with which you're getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me. ~ Alan Jacobs

Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I accomplished something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. ~ Nora Ephron

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Beat me instead," she cried, "It's not Darren's fault! I lost her, I let
her go
I cannot be free, I must be chained inside a house and
robbed of my hawk, you damned tyrant, but I will not have Preciosa
chained too! ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. ~ H.L. Mencken

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath. ~ Paul Kropp

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. ~ Seneca.

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book. ~ Aman Jassal

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love. ~ Gilles Deleuze

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ~ Ezra Pound

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. ~ Alan Bennett

Reading self-improvement books is like creating a mental savings account from which we can withdraw viable tools for what we perceive as tough days. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Reading releases you from the limits of yourself. ~ Chloe Thurlow

Books worth reading are worth re-reading. ~ Holbrook Jackson

Reading leads to a lifetime of learning ~ Laura Bullock

Reading is reading - no matter what the material. ~ Giovanna Fletcher

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader. ~ Aman Jassal

We live to read. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming. ~ Henry Seidel Canby

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. ~ Susan Sontag

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. ~ Bill Murray

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope. ~ Rebecca VanDeMark

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. ~ Beverly Cleary

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are ~ Someone

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. ~ Edward Abbey

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level. ~ Colleen Hoover

As far as I am concerned, all reading is for pleasure. ~ Nancy Mitford

The very best authors are no longer with us; so only read books written by dead people. ~ Kevin Ansbro

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things. ~ Jonathan Galassi

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. ~ Nelson Mandela

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. ~ Paul Kropp

Find a quiet place, and just read. If you're reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader.
Then you settle into the reading, and enjoy it. Bask in the luxury of reading without distractions. ~ Leo Babauta

You can't keep living without breathing; don't keep living without reading! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints. ~ Josemaria Escriva

My life and world was transformed by reading. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Read, mediate and pray. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. ~ Marshall McLuhan

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. ~ Anne Lamott

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. ~ C.S. Lewis

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ~ Elbert Hubbard

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. ~ Anna Quindlen

You can find magic
wherever you look.
Sit back and relax,
all you need is a book. ~ Dr. Seuss

Reading is the first challenge of translation. Reading, understanding and making a decision on what you're read is crucial to working with text ~ @wanguiwagoro

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. ~ Carla H. Krueger

A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors' collective and collaborative minds at work. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We reduce the effectiveness of reading interventions when we don't provide our lowest-performing students reading time and encouragement. Developing readers need more reading, not less. ~ Donalyn Miller

My early and invincible love of reading
I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ~ Edward Gibbon

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. ~ Anita Diament

Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly ~ Cornelia Funke

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. ~ Kenzaburo Oe

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading. ~ Debbie Reynolds

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac. ~ Tiffany Madison

A great book is one, which really don't finish when it finishes. ~ Aman Jassal

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up. ~ Cass McCombs

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. ~ Bill Sienkiewicz

Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people. ~ Anonymous

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading. ~ Stephen D. Krashen

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? ~ Karl Kraus

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. ~ Dan Chaon

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

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people. ~ Aakash Singal

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible. ~ Manoj Arora

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. ~ Nora Ephron

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. ~ Jason Mewes

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading. ~ Ramakrishna

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. ~ Tony Judt

Reading good books strengthens the moral fabric of society. ~ HBR Patel

Read because you're tired of secrets. ~ Gabby Rivera

Hurried reading can never be good reading ~ Georg Joachim Goschen

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise. ~ Kabir

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books? ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one. ~ Jim Trelease

Reading is the bridge between the island of ignorance towards the village of wisdom. ~ HBR Patel

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life. ~ Aman Jassal

I spent my life in the library reading books. ~ Michael Caine

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading. ~ Paul Theroux

Reading will give you lasting pleasure. ~ First Lady Laura Bush

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading. ~ James Patterson

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. ~ Holbrook Jackson

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. ~ Steven Wright

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. ~ Ruth Rendell