Best 400 quotes in «reading books quotes» category

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

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

Read read read Thats all I can say

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then—click—a world opens.

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

Accidentally moving someone’s bookmark is like realizing you gave bad directions and not telling them.

106When I don’t have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don’t have a book, there is nowhere good or interesting to be, there is nobody to care about, nothing to hope for, and nothing to puzzle over. When I do have something to read, it keeps me breathing. It’s the reward for all the other things. It’s the thing to look forward to, the reason for doing my day.” p. 177, Dime

A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movie would ever do. For example, when I watched the movie “The Hours” I was fascinated by the story. Just a year later I decided to read the book. And what was my surprise that I was even more dazzled by its writings than I was by the images… The images in my head were more vivid than the film could ever transport me to that feminine universe that the author was trying (and so successfully granted me) to conceive…

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

A book is a treasure of life.

A book is like a vacation for the brain.

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read the book with your soul!

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

After family, books are the things that make me happy. Books are my solace, my sanctuary from the everyday cares. If I could I would make reading my soul occupation.

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

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

A narcissist with power will attempt to prove in the world only what is already in his head. He can't 'see' otherwise. For him, the 'outside world' is not beyond him and does not question or challenge him and his ideas. He is the world. Others will assent to his distorted worldview, because he is powerful, not because he is believable. If he possesses any reflection, that will be exactly what will gnaw at the narcissist with power most of all: his 'truths' are inauthentic, and he is a human being without integrity. The very narcissism and power he possesses prevent him from an ongoing relationship with the truth, which begins with self-humility and the curiosity this can create in a person.

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

Also put your money where your mind is!

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

A reader [is] a time traveler.

Anyway, the same words can be found in both books, which makes sense because they're written by the same author.

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Aric’s voice was hoarse by the time he ended the tale, but he didn’t want to go to sleep. There was something so wonderfully intimate about sitting with another person like this, sharing a story, the candlelight flickering in the darkness. It was as if the rest of the world disappeared as long as the storytelling continued.

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.

Às vezes sentava-me na rede, balançando-me com o livro aberto no colo, sem tocá-lo, em êxtase puríssimo. Não era mais uma menina com um livro: era uma mulher com o seu amante.

Author visits are a fun way to engage kids, and encourage reading!

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

A traveling traveler travels but the non traveling traveler travels to places with the help of books that opens a traveler's chapter in the life of a non traveling yet traveling traveler.

At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.

authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world

A voltes no ens atrapa una obra, sino l'entusiasme de qui l'analitza.