Reading Books Quotes

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

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.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

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

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

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

With a book he was regardless of time...

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

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.

Time flies but books are timeless...

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world

Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.

He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

Antonio-"Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma."Peter-"Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream.

Never judge a book by its "spine".

I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read and write. Even if ‘all night long’ is added, I cannot say it – not until I know the focus of all this energy.

Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’Well, isn’t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

The Need to Read"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life’s questions, big and small.

Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.