Books Reading Quotes

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

I read part of it all the way through.

The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Home is where your books are.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

I cannot live without reading.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.