Books Reading Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin, carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

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.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

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.

I prefer the skylineof a shelf of books.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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