Reading Quotes

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A pri...

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry...

A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A...

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need the...

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song,...

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded...

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If th...

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

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

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words u...

Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read th...

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a su...

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

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

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl...

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No...

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ...

Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a b...

Literature is language charged with meaning

Literature is news that stays news.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new ...

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

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’v...

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away i...

Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was sudd...

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console ...

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more a...

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while h...

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come...

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential t...

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need ...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...

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

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need ...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...

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

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need ...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...

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

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need ...

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...

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

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...

I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doe...

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone w...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading do...

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no othe...

We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little head...

I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were no...

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth rea...

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather ma...

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in...

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and...

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ...

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

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die...

Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understoo...

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy w...

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoke...

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes...

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep