Best 400 quotes in «reading books quotes» category

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of exceptionally promising writers. If there is poison in the words, you are poisoned; if there is nourishment, you are nourished; if there is beauty, you are made a little more beautiful. In Hebrew, the word dabar means both word and also deed. A word doesn’t merely say something, it does something. It brings something into being.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

My books are a word feast.

My face flushed scarlet. I was a stranger in my own skin. I had ever felt this kind of anger in my life. Fort and confusion grew. Its sensation was an overwhelming concoction of hate. The only things I knew - the only things keeping me remotely calm- was the following litany. My name is Eleanora Ada Stone. I was moved from home to home for seventeen years. I am now living on this god-forsaken island in Maine. I was being kept from a world of secrets. I have abilities. I am not human. I do not know what I am.

Nechuť ke čtení je nám ještě nepochopitelnější, pokud pocházíme z generace, z doby, z prostředí či z rodiny, kde nám číst spíše zakazovali. "Přestaň už s tím čtením, zkazíš si oči!" "Jdi si radši hrát ven, je tam krásně!" "Zhasni, už je pozdě!" Ano, tenkrát bývalo na čtení vždycky ve dne příliš krásně a v noci příliš tma.

My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm afraid to discover she's ruined mine as well.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Non ricordo in che libro fosse. Ma ora è in questo

My interest in reading novels of various fiction was roused at a very early age. And the thought-provoking storylines of the great Donald Goines had been included in my very first library collection. ("Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1," 2018)

Never judge a book by its "spine".

Never judge a book by its movie.

Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?

Oh my," she said as though to herself. "The rumors are true, you have been kept in the dark.

Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’ Well, isn’t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

Once upon a time in a basement library nook, I stumbled upon my first favorite book. Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled, I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.

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

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

One may read thousands of books if it fails to understand, it gains nothing. If understands and avoids to act, remains useless. However, it is a way of ignorance too.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.

On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.

Of course I do. I’ve seen you upstairs every day, checking out book after book. You stay here reading long after every other student has gone home. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that someone who loves reading as much as you do can never be stopped. No matter where you go, you’ll have whole worlds in your head. No matter how hard life gets, you’ll have whole people’s lives worth of experience tucked away inside you. No matter how hard the world tries to silence you, there are millions and millions of words just waiting to burst from you.

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

People spend so much time on the personal development books that they can't find time for personal development!

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

People should read more.

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

Qualcosa che ci sfugge deve pur restare... Perche' il potere abbia un oggetto su cui esercitarsi, uno spazio in cui allungare le sue braccia... Finche' so che al mondo c'e' qualcuno che fa dei giochi di prestigio solo per amore del gioco, finche' so che c'e' una donna che ama la lettura per la lettura, posso convincermi che il mondo continua... E ogni sera m'abbandono alla lettura, come quella lontana lettrice sconosciuta.

Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.

Reading books is like wearing winter clothes; it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul.

Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their lives while you observe from the sidelines.

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.

Read because you’re tired of secrets.

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.

Reading a book is an intimate experience that can change people's lives in profound ways. It also changes the life of its author.

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do it in the first place---because dollar for dollar, hour per hour, it's the most expedient way to get from our proscribed little "here" to an imagined, intriguing there". Part time machine, part Concorde, part ejector seat, books are our salvation.

Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit.

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.