Books Reading Quotes

A good book is an event in my life.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Literature is news that stays news.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

I guess there are never enough books.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!