Reading Quotes

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

To read too many books is harmful.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

The book should act as a window to the word.

Libraries are the future of reading.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.