Books Reading Quotes

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

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?

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

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

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.

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?

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

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

We live and breathe words.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

With a book he was regardless of time...

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

There is no other enjoyment like reading

A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.