Reading Quotes

For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever.

People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to l

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3, 900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

Some men borrow books some men steal books and others beg presentation copies from the author.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

Any book is my kind of book that I can read with delight.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

Without a doubt, I must read, all the booksI've read about.See the artworkshung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books.

Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Books require titles reading them doesn't

Literature cannot be imposed it must be discovered.

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

I do not want to just read books I want to crawl inside them and live there.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating.” --Alison Bechdel

Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.