Reading Quotes

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

Sacred actions: gratitude, praying, dancing, hugging, singing, writing, painting, drawing, gardening, jogging, reading, knitting and many more!

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

When someone tells me to 'just relax, ' I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?

The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems.

Never underestimate the power of giving a book!

I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

I love the pleasure of reading poetry.

I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.

Books are where the true magic happens.

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

Nightmares have a dreadful effect of captivating our minds during the waking hours. Nevertheless, they are merely fiction.

That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

Reading is an escape people use in order to get away from reality. It is a chance to be free and explore who you are.

I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.location 3234

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

You can never have too many books or too many hugs.

Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

...the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

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.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.

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.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

Books may not judge you, but people do.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.

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.

I like to share my thoughts after watching/reading or listening to something... after all you could get with amazing thoughts.

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.

So you’re a reader, ” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves?

Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding.

...'To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.'– Ecclesiastes 12:12

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.