Best 400 quotes in «reading books quotes» category

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.

Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast’s struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay — the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or frame-work. Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does. That were to make a nation of supple and athletic minds well-train’d, intuitive, used to depend on themselves, not on a few coteries of writers.

Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

Be great, read great books.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Books bear the dreary whisper of an author's memory, a phantom of dreams and mares woven from lessons. Read and explore a life beyond your own, one where forgotten names triumph and fall, and where love and hate crumble the hardest hearts. There is power in words. It can alter the living, immortalize the dead, and forge Gods.

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.

Books are more to treasure than cars.

Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be well-read paupers.

Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity.

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?" Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.

Bücher lesen heißt wandern gehen in ferne Welten, aus den Stuben über die Sterne

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

Buku dapat menjadi teman yang baik yang selalu setia menemani kita, memberi kita persis yang kita butuhkan dalam suasana hati yang sedang kita rasakan. Buku tidak menuntut apapun, meluaskan batas pandangan dan membuka diri Anda menjadi manusia dunia, mengenalkan Anda pada opini dan cara pandang yang berbeda, sehingga Anda tidak mandek pada kesempitan pikiran tanpa pengetahuan dan informasi.

Come sit with me, beneath a tree, and we’ll share many a story. We’ll read and write both day and night, and free our hearts from worry. ~ Author Mickey MorningGlory

Chapter breaks are not so readers have a place to stop reading; they're the breath to take before the roller coaster plummets down the hill

Cosa farei senza libri? Ne ho la casa piena, eppure non mi bastano mai. Vorrei avere una giornata di trentasei ore per poter leggere a mio piacere. Tengo libri di tutte le dimensioni: da tasca, da borsa, da valigia, da taschino, da scaffale, da tavolo. E ne porto sempre uno con me. Non si sa mai: se trovo un momento di tempo, se mi fanno aspettare in un ufficio, che sia alla posta o dal medico, tiro fuori il mio libro e leggo. Quando ho il naso su una pagina non sento la fatica dell'attesa. E, come dice Ortega y Gasset, in un libro mi "impaeso", a tal punto che mi è difficile spaesarmi. Esco dai libri con le pupille dilatate. Lo considero il piacere più grande, più sicuro, più profondo della mia vita.

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Daily Bible reading, path of light.

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

Dogeared pages means someone is reading a paperback...

Certainly, some reading material merits a quick read, but habitual skimming is for the mind what a steady diet of fast food is for the body. Speed-reading is not only inferior to deep reading but may bring more harm that benefits: one critic cautions taht reading fast is simply a 'way of fooling yourself into thinking you're learning something.' When you read quickly, you aren't thinking critically or making connections. Worse yet, 'speed-reading gives you two things that should never mix: superficial knowledge and overconfidence.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

Drop everithing and read.

Even the top motivational speakers and inspirational writers are constantly reading books from other self-improvement people, because they truly understand that knowledge has no limit to it.

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Every reading is a misreading.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a couch, prostrate on your bed, or glued to your desk, you can go places and travel through time.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more

For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.

Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.