Reading Quotes

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people...

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someon...

These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful...

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you'...

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, meas...

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them...

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more ...

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource f...

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

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while readi...

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgot...

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every...

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even...

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds ever...

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

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them...

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlig...

Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a th...

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book no...

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

My life is a reading list.

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will be...

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it...

I have good reason to be content,for thank God I can read andperhaps understand Shakespeare to his d...

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In tha...

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to rea...

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy s...

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

Nearly all our associations are determined by chance or necessity; and restricted within a narrow ci...

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human br...

I guess there are never enough books.

...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides whit...

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people...

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s...

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discove...

I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read...

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt...

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asle...

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Oh for a book and a shady nook,Either indoors or out,with the green leaves whispering overhead,or th...

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching televisio...

You're either reading a book or you're not.

And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed...

Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I a...

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectu...

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concer...

When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establi...

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorke...

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extens...

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read...

Man is what he reads.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind i...

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to rea...

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, an...

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right ...

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

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulg...

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a su...

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a per...

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends t...

Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional appreh...

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior w...

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up r...

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to ...

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

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he c...

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - readi...

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken ...

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one aft...

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forev...