Reading Words Quotes

Reading Words Quote of the day

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

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

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Literature is my Utopia

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

We live and breathe words.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.

Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency.