Reading Words Quotes
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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?
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.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
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.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
it's doesn't matter how long you spend the time writing words, the only thing that matter, is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader .
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
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.
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.
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.