Reading Quotes
I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me.
We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.
With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. ”― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.
I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels...
If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.
Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.
There's always a person for every book. And a book for every person.
Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.
As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.
I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.
A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.
Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden
It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.
Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.
In a way, the books were protection. An escape she would always have access to.A sanctuary, there for when she needed it.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.
The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.
It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere
For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.
The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another.
The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.