Reading Quotes

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.

A library — a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps.

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.

Having had this kind of binge reading relationship with online content for 15 years we're starting to think 'Hang on, we only have finite time and there is infinite content'.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spite of going though the pain and pleasure of the characters, you remain a witness, unscathed.

I can't remember the poemThat pierced through my heartIt was the saddest I heardOf all truths ever spokenIt left a scar in meA wound that doesn't healBut the words are forgottenSo is a big part of me

Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime!

I read for pleasureIn search of fictional worldsTo enrich my truths

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

Books … they’re kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them.

Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

I don’t know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found myself the most willing servant of what I considered a rich habit.

I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

Books can kill you, while you are reading.

Read every day and learn from what you read.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

To be perfectly honest, I think she became sick of Society during her debut season. Better to lock herself in her room with her books than to spend her life paying calls and going to balls.

Addiction to reading... There are worse things in the world to be Addicted to. I admire your hobby choice it's mine as well.

Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.

Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it!

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems.

Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Rereading, we find a new book

Leave me alone, Do me a favor, abandon me, I want to think about, You me and the idea of forever.

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world.

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise.

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.