Books Reading Quotes

Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver, " she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

The world belongs to those who read.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Literature cannot be imposed it must be discovered.

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.

I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.