Books Reading Quotes

A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

Books are the best companions. They talk to you when you want them and they stop when you want them…They ask no questions, and want no favours.

Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.

We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books

...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

When you read, ' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.

Books may not judge you, but people do.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

...'To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.'– Ecclesiastes 12:12

We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spite of going though the pain and pleasure of the characters, you remain a witness, unscathed.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them.

Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls.

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

we became the books we read.

Good aims not always make good books.

I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns.

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

A writer who doesn’t read is like a director who doesn’t watch movies.

Never interrupt someone who is reading because they’re no longer in your world.

And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency.

I read to learn from the greats but I write to compete with them.

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books.

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.

Because What we Learn from our Favorite Books, you see in our daily Lives.---JennAnijah Publishing

I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.