Anna Quindlen Quotes About Reading

• Los libros son el avión, el tren y la carretera. Son el destino y el viaje. Son el hogar.

  Anna Quindlen

  Viajar, Libro, Lectura

  Anna Quindlen (2010). "How Reading Changed My Life", p.70, Ballantine Books

• Leemos en la cama porque la lectura está a medio camino entre la vida y el sueño, nuestra propia conciencia en la mente de otra persona.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sueño, Lectura, Mente

  Anna Quindlen (2010). "Cómo la lectura cambió mi vida", p.20, Ballantine Books.

• En los libros he viajado, no sólo a otros mundos, sino al mío propio.

  Anna Quindlen

  Viajar, Libro, Lectura

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.6, Ballantine Books

• A finished person is a boring person.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Reading, Individuality

• Aunque de boquilla defendemos las virtudes de la lectura, lo cierto es que todavía hay en nuestra cultura algo que sospecha que quienes leen demasiado, signifique lo que signifique leer demasiado, son vagos, soñadores sin rumbo, gente que necesita crecer y salir a la calle, donde está la vida real, que se creen superiores en su separatismo.

  Anna Quindlen

  Growing Up, Real, Reading

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.9, Ballantine Books

• 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

  Libro, Lectura, Inicio

• ¿Cómo es posible que, dos siglos después de que Jane Austen terminara su manuscrito, lleguemos al mundo de Orgullo y prejuicio y nos encontremos trascendiendo las costumbres, las restricciones, el tiempo y las costumbres para llegar a un lugar que nos educa, nos divierte y nos cautiva? Es un milagro. Leemos en la cama porque la lectura está a medio camino entre la vida y el sueño, nuestra propia conciencia en la mente de otra persona.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sueño, Lectura, Orgullo

  Anna Quindlen (2010). "Cómo la lectura cambió mi vida", p.20, Ballantine Books.

• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

• Toda lectura es una buena lectura. Y toda lectura de Jane Austen y Charles Dickens es una lectura sublime.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Sublime, Austen

• Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.

  Anna Quindlen

  Lectura, escritura, escuela

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.184, Random House

• the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, Gripping

• 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

  Reading, People, World

  Fuente: www.bookbrowse.com

• Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Blessing, Technique

  Fuente: www.writersdigest.com

• 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

  Reading, Hands, Way

  Fuente: www.goodreads.com

• 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

  Spiritual, Reading, Emotional

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