Reading Quotes

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its gho...

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not m...

If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he as...

What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

No two persons ever read the same book.

When this book is mould,And a book of manyWaiting to be soldFor a casual penny,In a little open case...

Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me,...

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people wh...

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My a...

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the ...

Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was st...

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing g...

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, ...

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book's pro...

We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...

Books, books, books!I had found the secret of a garret roomPiled high with cases in my father’s name...

Good aims not always make good books.

I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed...

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result...

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it g...

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it

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.