Reading Quotes

A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

The library was the best place in the world.

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

Every library is a palace

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.

Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away, a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.

Creating Habbit reading, if you want to create it should point all genres which you like or you want to be explored... and then to show that it's interesting.

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.

Never judge a book by its "spine".

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?

If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.

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

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.

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.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

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.

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.

There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.

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.

Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.

Robert Pattinson reads all of the time and he refers so many great books.

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.

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.