Reading Quotes

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting

You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

Book means fly in the sky, cross the desert, without wing without water.

I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.

People should read more.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.

And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.

The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of li

Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

You should read it though there is much that is skip-worthy.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Laws die books never.

Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.