Reading Books Quotes
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.
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?
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.
Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.
Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.
Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.
And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.
All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting
You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.
To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.
She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.
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.
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.