Reading Quotes

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.

Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

She's always loved writers, even more than the books I think. They're like personal friends to her.

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

You are what you eat and read.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she'd be just as happy.

His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.

Reading a book is something you do to yourself.

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, " he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.

Don't look at me like that, " said Ruza."Like what?""Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.

Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

Reading is all about losing and finding yourself.

You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.

You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.

Never a day without a line.

If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.

Books and workshops and gurus are great, but the very best teacher for your mind is, and will always be, your heart.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Books will never die out as long as there are people around.

And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.

Books make the soul float.