Reading Quotes
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends, " says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.
I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..
It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone.
Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes, ’ I’m unsure how to talk to you
I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.
Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver, " she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting the bubbles.
Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.
The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.
...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.
Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.
On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn
Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.