Books Reading Quotes

Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her.

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she'd be just as happy.

Reading a book is something you do to yourself.

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

Don't look at me like that, " said Ruza."Like what?""Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

Reading is all about losing and finding yourself.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.

Never a day without a line.

If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?

Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.

Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

Books make the soul float.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

I’m so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own.

My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

But sir, I'm seventeen, " I reply bluntly. "I'm genetically programmed to want to make statements.

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

The wider we read the freer we become.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

Words matter . . . They really do.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

...Every life contains a novel.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Read books and be happy.

Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep.

Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin, carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.

I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.