Reading Quotes

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les...

What I’m suggesting then is that much of our response to novels may have to do with the kind of “sys...

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read on...

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a to...

I am charmed by the idea that there is an activity known as work and another as play, although even ...

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and rea...

When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and ta...

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally tak...

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse th...

We live for books.

The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is th...

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respirat...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist...

Why is it that if you say you don’t enjoy using an e-reader, or that you aren’t going to get one til...

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and ...

The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make...

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, a...

A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you ...

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up o...

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the e...

I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his...

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered...

Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise...

Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heaven...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that t...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books....

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pa...

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is hersel...

She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privac...

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still ...

A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the ...

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to...

In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and...

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat...

I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by liter...

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the...

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ...

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and di...

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how...

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his ...

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their l...

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school bo...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with...

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer...

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an ...

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the hear...

Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few se...

We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ...

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imag...

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would ...

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part...

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...

Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad tr...

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgme...

A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish...

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries o...

I repeat here what you will find in my first chapter, that the only thing that signifies to you in a...

He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expec...

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h...

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know t...

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h...

I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a lab...

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is n...

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history....

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

What is reading but silent conversation?

What is reading but silent conversation.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommo...

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed autho...

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when...

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in ...

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me i...

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to...

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...

I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to liste...

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inani...