Reading Quotes

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put

If we could follow the slogan that says, "Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.

I'm not a stranger, " I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Guess I’ve been reading too much fantasy.

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

Reading is an addiction that I adore.

Go to hell, I'm reading!

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

Don't just read words, ' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Reading is dreaming with open eyes

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-

Plans make dreams reality.

There's this magical place, ' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)

Fiction is life by design.

Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.

And all you can do is just read, " she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

One reads so as not to believe everything one reads.

I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.

A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.