Reading Quotes
Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.
Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.
Father and Ivy used to go off on their excursions, never knowing that I was relieved when they were gone. That I'd wear my nightgowns all day and read from dawn till dusk.
Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.
12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.
They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.
I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.
Some like to sleep. Some like to read late into the night without catching a wink. In a world of dreamers, both are essential.
Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.
I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take a nap.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.
To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.
Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.
Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.
Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica.
I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
She trailed her fingers along the book spines as she wandered around the room. “My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.
I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page
Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.
It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.
If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!
The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.