Books Reading Quotes

Books Reading Quote of the day

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

We become the books we read.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

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.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

The world exists to end up in a book.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

The world was hers for the reading.

Only the nonreader fears books.