Reading Quotes

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

I cannot live without reading.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be [email protected].

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.