Books Reading Quotes

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

...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.

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Learn with great passion.Learn with great enthusiasm.

It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another.

There are books written to be read.There are books written to be sold.The first ones have the soul and lessons you need.The second ones are just plain, empty, and cold.

A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination.

Take a look and pick up a book, you never know what you might just find.

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

Every book is a world.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

Life is a book.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

Reading & Thinking Breeds limitless progress.

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.

The world of books is my fantasy.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.

Books make my world complete.

Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.

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