Reading Quotes

With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as...

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in ...

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’r...

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accompli...

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the l...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of educat...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of ...

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by ...

Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, tha...

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, ...

I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a c...

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say...

For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...

I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is n...

Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring ...

For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard bef...

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Vi...

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which peo...

I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched ...

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the po...

A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we h...

With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way li...

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrus...

It takes all sorts to make a world,” some are soldiers from the cradle, some merchants, some orators...

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had no...

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76

I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to ...

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someon...

How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world...

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by...

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

Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. ...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture ...

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined ...

I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read tra...

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxur...

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I co...

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means ...

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a ...

You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of...

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that o...

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of l...

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a sha...

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind,...

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their ...

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers...

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secr...

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe et...

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literatu...

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery prob...

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points,...

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class Fra...

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for th...

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleas...

His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save h...

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplish...

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the s...

I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon ...

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient ...

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door ...

If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise s...

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer a...

This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public...

Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read the...

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the...

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the pur...