Reading-books Quotes

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each in...

This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading i...

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learn...

(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake t...

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his nei...

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about...

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly...

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to liv...

When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. A...

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will...

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s...

I think I might have something for you today," he says, reaches beneath the counter, and his hand co...

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and ...

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be ...

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes liste...

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the wa...

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too ofte...

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him...

Drop everithing and read.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there wa...

I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to...

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of r...

He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes b...

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because ...

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night...

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circul...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

With a book he was regardless of time...

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and...

I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be...

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thi...

Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolutio...

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a p...

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a singl...

And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into ...

The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through...

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is kee...

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you alw...

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more co...

If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God t...

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea div...

The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to...

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case al...

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughe...

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on the...

Never read a book that is not a year old.

You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.

...reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centur...

Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to disma...