Reading Book Quotes

What a blessing it is to love books.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got to third or fourth grade - don't associate reading with fun.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.