Reading Quotes

There’s always a chapter in our life that hasn’t been read.

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.

We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it’s like, she didn’t care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.