Reading Book Quotes

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

i really like reading books

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.