Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
Literature … is an essential form of befriending yourself for life. ~ Natascha McElhone
A book reaches you by using mind control, but only with your consent. ~ Annalee Newitz
A place where the reader and the writer meet in reciprocity to create something which has never existed before. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Why read? Because experiencing eloquence of language is one of the greatest pleasures of consciousness. … We read as a form of faith. ~ Naomi Wolf
A meditative prophet named Mohammed had a vision of the Angel Gabriel who came to him with a message: “Read.” … This was the first word of the Quran. ~ Mohammed Fairouz
We read for fun, and experience curious side effects. ~ Baba Brinkman
I read whenever I want to feel safe. ~ Paola Antonelli
Books … introduced me to people who think like I want to. ~ Lisa Randall
Opening a book is opening a door. ~ James Gleick
Dreams are nourished by books. I don't know how someone can know the human condition without reading. ~ Yann Martel
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ~ Paul Auster
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike. ~ Thomas a Kempis
Happiness is ignoring the world because you're reading.
Books are food for the brain.
Ever realized how surreal reading a book is? You stare at slivers of a tree for hours on end, hallucinating vividly.
A good book is an event in my life. ~ Stendhal
People sit around on their phones, but when I pull out a book, I'm 'antisocial'.
We don't just want books, we need them. We don't just read books, we are the characters in the books. We feel their happiness, their pain, their losses, and their gains. Reading isn't a hobby, it is who we are.
And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it - perhaps your favorite sentence - to memory. That way, you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears. ~ John Irving
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits, by the love we give. ~ Robin Sharma
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ~ Anthony Trollope [Sorry you weren't around for OHIB, Tony.]
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. ~Aldous Huxley
Reading is sexy.
People who say I'm hard to shop for must not know where to buy books.
You had me at, 'I love reading.'
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. ~ J.K. Rowling
Books fall open, you fall in.
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. ~ Steve Leveen
Don't forget to recharge your mind.
Books are proof that humans can work magic.
Keep calm, and find magic between the pages.
Books are not my whole life but they make my life whole.
Books may well be the only true magic. ~ Alice Hoffman
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. ~ Samuel Johnson
Do books belong to me or do I belong to books? That is the question.
Books are a banquet for the mind
Hardback, paperback or e-Reader - does it really matter how you read as long as you're reading?
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. ~ Mary Englebreit
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night telling itself stories. ~ Jonathan Gottschall
Each time you open a book and read it, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
Life's short. Spend it happy.
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood – it was just that so very often they were dead, and in a book. ~ Eva Ibbotson
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten. Even so, they have made me. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Readers gonna read
That moment when something shocking happens in a book and you feel like you can't read fast enough
Reading is breathing for the mind.
Make America Read Again
I don't have to look far to find treasures. I discover them every time I visit a library. ~ Michael Embry
Reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. ~ Wislawa Szymborska
Reading is the best exercise for the mind.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Reading is a reserved exercise for the soul.
Reading is my favorite sport.
The problem with a good book is that you want to finish the book but you don't want to finish the book.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested. ~ Francis Bacon
Good friends, good books, a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Fight evil. Read books.
I think, therefore I read.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rx for boredom: read.
Born to read, forced to work.
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story. He feels them. ~ Cornelia Funke
Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Bound to be Read ~ book store
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ~ Marcel Proust
Treat yourself to a little literary therapy.
I disappear into books. What's your superpower?
I want to become a movie director only to make sure my favorite books are adapted correctly.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. ~ Irving Stone
Books are kind friends. We benefit by their advice, and they exact no confessions.
The books we read answer questions we didn't even know existed. ~ Axel Marazzi
If you've dated a bookworm, raise your glass. If not, raise your standards.
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. ~ E.L. Doctorow
I have a small wireless device that gives me access to thousands of books and movies. It's a library card.
The love of books is the root of all happiness.
They say money can't buy happiness, but I have a receipt from the bookstore telling a whole different story.
Reading is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Reading is a pleasure. Books are a treasure.
I am a reader. That means I live in a crazy fantasy world with unrealistic expectations. Thank you for understanding.
For something that doesn't make any sound, a book speaks loud enough for its message to be etched in our hearts forever.
Read every day. Lead a better life.
Today, I'm taking responsibility for my own happiness. I'm going to the bookstore.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island. Best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ~ Walt Disney
You would not believe the battery life on this thing. I've been reading it for weeks!
I sometimes pretend to myself that I have insomnia when what I really have is a good book and inadequate respect for tomorrow.
Cultivate above all things a taste for reading. ~ Robert Lowe
My personality is 85% of the last book I read.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ~ Vera Nazarian
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do. ~ Will, Clockwork Angel
Reading IS the reward.
Autumn's sweet whisper requires a good book and a warm drink.
Book nerds don't get old - they become rare first editions.
Never underestimate the power of good literature.
The world was hers for the reading.
There is no Bookaholics Anonymous because no one wants to quit.
Books build a stairway to your imagination
I will read on a boat, I will read with a goat, I will read on a train, I will read in the rain, I will read with a fox, I will read in a box, I will read with a mouse, I will read in a house, I will read here or there, I will read anywhere! ~ Dr. Seuss
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the thing that money can't buy.
I am a book dragon, not a worm
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my ADD medicates itself. Reading is escape and the opposite of escape. It's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up. And it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination.
When you get super sucked into a book and during reading breaks you have to take a moment and figure out what's actually happened in your life instead of what's happened in the characters' lives.
It's always better to have too much to read than not enough. ~ Ann Patchett
Dear people who put stickers right across the synopsis of a book, there are no words to describe the severity and evilness of your deeds.
You know you're reading a good book when you have to cover up the next page so you don't read ahead.
I love books, but I also hate them. I hate them because they create worlds I can only dream about living in when I'm still stuck in the sadness that is my reality.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ~ Carl Sagan
Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood. ~ John Green
Fog on her glasses from the still-steaming tea. A book in her hand as she casually reads. A catch in her breath as the climax grows near. She's deaf to the world, the book's all she can hear. She's completely lost now, or perhaps she is found, in this strange paper world that's far from the ground.
So if people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one [and what a joy that is]. If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed out on one of the greatest pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears. ~ Cassandra Clare
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
What you think, you become. ~ Buddha
Do you ever think about how weird reading is? Our eyes are able to scan these different symbols and construct the scenarios and concepts they describe in our mind, and these concepts have the power to twist our emotions and make us cry and laugh and wow, reading is weird.
And if I could tell you one thing, it would be: you are never as broken as you think you are. Sure, you may have a couple of scars and a couple of bad memories, but then again all great heroes do.
In the end, we all become stories. ~ Margaret Atwood
I found comfort through literature. I loved getting lost in things as marvelous and as wonderful as books. They made me forget about my own troubles, like a submarine and the sea, they submerged me so perfectly.
Love is a book and a light to read it by.
It's called reading. It's how people install new software into their brains.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
To partially forget the sadness: read a book, drink some tea.
How angry you get at yourself when your eyes jump down the page and you read a big plot twist prematurely.
I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
I like fictional characters more than people I know personally.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ~ Fernando Pessora
I feel a profound connection to you based on the books I saw on your bookshelf.
Books have a way of making you homesick for a place you've never been to.
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. ~ Steve Leveen
If you read one book a week starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print. ~ Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Whenever I read a book and I read the sentence with the book's title in it I get completely giddy inside.
Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling, ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace. Never let someone make you ashamed of what you love to read. ~ Rae Carson
Reading is everything. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is escape and the opposite of escape, it's a way to make contact with reality, it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. ~ Nora Efron
An hour spent reading is one stolen from Paradise. ~ Thomas Wharton
A children's story which is only enjoyed by children is a bad children's story. ~ C. S. Lewis
Seeing books in the background of a picture and struggling to read the titles. Smallbookthing.tumblr
Finding out that someone loves the same book as you? Hello, instant new best friend.
When I get to the last page of a really good book, my heart sinks a little.
Cold night. Large sweater. Warm tea. Good book. Soft socks and a box of chocolate.
When you have a list of about a hundred books you want, but no one understands that you can't just check them out of the library because you want to own the story and be able to revisit the characters and mark your favorite quotes and give it a home in your overflowing bookshelf. No one understands that there are as many reasons to own a book as there are reasons to live.
Blind date with a book
You can never read too much
When I read a book, if it's written that a character has "raised their eyebrow" or "bit their lip", "look shocked", etc., I do that expression while I read it.
Hell hath no fury like a woman interrupted while reading a really good book.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination. ~ Alan Bennett
The giddy feeling you get when it's just you and your book in the house alone.
Today, I'd like to ignore everything else and just read.
Getting second-hand embarrassment when a character in a book does something awkward.
I am a bookaholic and I regret nothing.
Bookshops are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers, dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. ~ Jen Campbell
Next best thing to magic.
When a book I was loving has a terrible ending. "After all we've been through…."
The more a child reads, the likelier they are able to understand the emotions of others.
My first thought after I finish an amazing book: "Well, this sucks. What the hell am I supposed to do now?"
Whenever I say a character from a book is hot my friend always asks how I would know because I've never seen them. Have you read their description? Have you read the way they speak? Have you read the way they feel about the things they love and hate? Have you read about their fears and their hopes and their dreams? The character is hot.
I'm not addicted to reading! I can quit as soon as I finish one more chapter….
To read or not to read … that is a silly question.
I can't come into work today because a work of fiction has left me emotionally crippled. ~kellyangeltumblr.com
I'm a simple person who just likes long walks in the book aisle.
Winter was made for warm blankets and large books.
Asking me if I like reading is like asking me if I like breathing.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much though. ~ J.D. Salinger
When somebody says, "It's just a book," smile, because they just don't understand.
She who reads is booked every night.
Oh for a book and a shady nook either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead or the street cries all about, where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, for a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold. ~ John Wilson
When reading, we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls. Thisislovelifequotes.net
Life is a book and there are thousands of pages I have not yet read.
My book is almost finished, but I'm just not ready to say goodbye to these characters. Maybe if I just read the last chapter really slow….
I love going to a bookstore or library and just browse. It's like my own personal therapy session.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C.S. Lewis
Some books are meant to be read just like this, along with the evening, a bowl of fruit ripening, waiting for the reader to grow hungry but she won't, the book will devour her, and it will soon become morning.
Books are drugs for the imagination - and you are 100% addicted.
It's like an iPad, only thicker. It entertains you for hours. It's like individual screens with words on it. It's like a movie you get to direct in your own head. ~ Jon Stewart
Whoever said diamonds are a girl's best friend forgot about books.
I prefer books over people. I don't need therapy as long as I can get lost in a novel.
When just thinking of that book gives you both a warm fuzzy feeling because you loved it and an ache in your heart because it's over.
You can't read all day … if you don't start in the morning.
The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone. ~ Jonathan Franzen
A little reading is all the therapy a person needs sometimes.
I cannot live without books. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.
I was ready to take on the world until I saw this marvelous little book store.
Books are perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, and hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why doesn't everybody carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. ~ Stephen King
You know you're a book lover when you read until your eyes can't focus.
At times I think to myself, "Drop the book and get stuff done." Then, I laugh and turn the page.
Why yes, I do enjoy when you sit and talk to me while I'm trying to read an awesome book.
My favorite game is called "how many chapters can I read in one night."
I'm sorry, but I only date fictional characters in my head.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. … Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. … Reading possesses a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.” ~ E.B. White
Books make your mind sharper, life more exciting, spirits higher, stress levels lower, and heart more compassionate.
Pet peeve: when someone assumes that when you are reading a book, that you are 'doing nothing' and therefore can be interrupted. Repeatedly.
I love rainy days with a blanket and a cup of tea and a book.
I am a product of endless books.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. ~ Mortimer Adler
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. ~ Stephen Fry
All you need are books and tea.
Keep reading and clean later.
When I finish a good book or book series I feel like I have lost a part of me and don't know what to do with myself.
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Old books exert a strange fascination in me. Their smell, their feel, their history, wondering who might have owned them, how they lived.
My absolute favorite thing is finding a book I can't put down and reading it until really late at night and only stopping when my eyes start to hurt and my vision gets blurry from either sleep or strain. And when I put it down I realize how tired I am and fall asleep instantly. In the morning, I wake up and the first thing I do is pick up the book and I read until I'm hungry or I need to pee. I just love that.
Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when I have to stop reading, it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.
Just in case things get boring, I'm bringing a book.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you and now, here it is, set down by someone else. A person you have never met. Someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours. ~ Alan Bennett
Keep calm, drink tea, and read books.
When I say, "I wish they would turn this book into a movie," what I really mean is, "I wish they would turn this book into a 17-hour-long spectacle that includes every single solitary detail and doesn't deviate at all from the storyline and has perfect casting."
For me, "I'll just read one or two more chapters," always ends at four in the morning with a finished book.
"Don't you ever do anything besides read?" "Not willingly."
Reading won't solve your problems. But then again, neither will housework.
When I finish a book, I mope around for a few hours because I feel a hole in my heart. When I finish a series, it's even worse.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That's the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow. She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. Buy her another cup of coffee. Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses, she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or if she would like to be Alice.
I want a boy who will build me bookshelves.
I want a boy who takes me on dates to the bookstore and buys me books instead of roses.
Guys that read are attractive.
Books don't change people. Paragraphs do, sometimes even sentences.
It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place, to any part of my life. ~ The Yonahi Ossee Riding Camp for Girls
I don't have a favorite book, I have hundreds.
I have a sleeping disorder. It's called reading books that are too good.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. They are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles William Eliot
"One more chapter…" I whispered, two hours ago.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Books wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I decided staying up all night and finishing my book was more important than being mentally present today.
I hate buying books with the covers of movie adaptations.
I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
When I've had too much reality, I open a book.
No two persons ever read the same book.
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. ~ Carl Sagan
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished, just to stay near it. ~ Markus Zusak
I love books because I don't have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.
Books are uniquely portable magic. ~ Stephen King
It's strange because sometimes I read a book and I think I am the people in the book.
Reading! Fuck you, reality!
I don't buy books. I adopt them.
You know that moment when you're reading a book and you just have to stop and bite your lip and squeal or sigh or close your eyes and wrinkle your nose and forehead and press the book against your heart and just like stay there and try to soak up the gorgeous literature via osmosis? That's my favorite part of reading.
Reading is your friend when other people forget to be. It is as clear as it can possibly be. It teaches you things. It gives you lots of other friends, occasionally cute ones. It gives you places to dream about. It invents things that no one has ever dreamed of. It will stay with you until the very end. After Lord Voldemort is dead, Narnia is gone, and Alice is awake.
If I'm ever stranded, I hope it's in a bookstore.
Picking five favorite books is like picking five body parts you'd most like not to lose. ~ Neil Gaiman
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.
One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. ~ Cassandra Clarke
Should I cook, clean or do the grocery shopping? Okay, reading it is!
I tried everything to get to sleep last night. Well, everything except closing the book and putting it on the nightstand. Let's not get too crazy.
On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. the kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.
Crisp days and autumn leaves make me want to read more books.
If I could be paid to read books, I think I would die happy.
We read to know that we are not alone.
Nothing renders me useless like a really good book.
I'd love it if I could make a living off reading books of my choice.
A digital book can't be infused with smells, can't press flowers in between its pages. It can't contain spilt tears or coffee stains. No, only a real book can do those things.
Five facts about reading:
Fact 1: Reading can make you a better conversationalist.
Fact 2: Neighbors will never complain that your book is too loud.
Fact 3: Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected. You'd better read.
Fact 4: Books have stopped bullets - reading might save your life.
Fact 5: Dinosaurs didn't read. Look what happened to them.
I get absolutely and undeniably attached to book characters to the point where I cry and laugh with them, and physically miss them when I finish reading the book.
Reading books would only be boring if you lacked imagination.
A book is a magic portal to another dimension.
She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill you and live. ~ Annie Dillard
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. ~ Lloyd Alexander
Bookworms will rule the world … as soon as we finish one more chapter.
When someone asks me to borrow a book, at first I'm happy they want to read the books I like. Then I'm scared they'll hurt my baby.
Turn it off. Read a book.
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. ~ Harper Lee
I might read until I feel better.
After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.
Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.
I love to read. That doesn't mean I don't have a life. It doesn't mean I'm a nerd. I only have the feeling that … even when you're back in reality you still feel like you're in a different world.
The way to a woman's heart is through the bookstore.
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. ~ Joanne Harris
There is no such thing as too many books.
I am a reader not because I don't have a life but because I choose to have many.
A book a day keeps reality away.
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read. ~ Lemony Snicket
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles William East
What you read when you don't have to determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~ Oscar Wilde
People who hate to read scare me.
There's nothing better than a hot cup of tea and a good book.
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives … as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Asking a bookworm to name their favorite book is like asking a mother to pick a favorite child.
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share minds, great actions and great undertakings in the pages of a book. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. ~ Paul Valery
A good book can change a person's life.
Why reach for the stars when you can reach for a book and have the stars, the sun and the moon?
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Ray Bradbury
Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. ~ Charlaigne Harris
Finally reading for your own pleasure, in places quiet or loud, in relative comfort, preferably without interruption, the book you've been meaning to read for months [perhaps years], and which has been on your shelf, waiting for you to have time.
In books unread, we lie between their pages. As they turn us to lovers like season's changes. ~ Lang Leav
Books aren't made of pages and words. They're made of hope, dreams, and possibilities.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King
I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me. ~ Abbas Al-Akkad
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
"Mr. Van Doren is that rarity, a truly well read man who reads not for professional purposes but for pleasure. His book spurs us on to explore more deeply and joyfully the infinitely varied terrain of good books." ~ Clifton Fadiman, author of "The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature", commenting on Charles van Doren's "The Joy of Reading"
For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. ~ C.S. Lewis
It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book. ~ Nella Last
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. ~ Jane Austen
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~Italo Calvino
Think before you speak. Read before you think. ~ Fran Lebowitz
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ~ William Styron
I guess there are never enough books. ~ John Steinbeck
If books are not good company, where will I find it? ~ Mark Twain
Outside of a dog, books are man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read. ~ Groucho Marx
“Reading is a miracle of communication in the midst of solitude. … Reading is at the threshold of our inner life; it can lead us into that life but cannot constitute it. … What is needed, therefore, is an intervention that occurs deep within ourselves while coming from someone else, the impulse of another mind that we receive in the bosom of solitude.” ~ Marcel Proust
“Books … give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the “real” everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.” ~ Susan Sontag
“Among the many worlds that man did not receive as a gift from nature but created out of his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. ... Without the word, without the writing of books, there is no history, there is no concept of humanity. And if anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space, in a single house or a single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books. … If today the ability to read is everyone’s portion, still only a few notice what a powerful talisman has thus been put into their hands. There are a few who remain constantly bewitched by the strange miracle of letters and words (which once, to be sure, were an enchantment and magic formula to everyone). From these few come the readers. They discover as children the few poems and stories … and instead of turning their backs on these things after acquiring the ability to read, they press forward into the realm of books and discover step by step how vast, how various and blessed this world is!” ~ Hermann Hesse
“Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower, steel, stitch, and cloud and clout, and drumbeats in the air.” ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
“In many ways, books are the original internet — each fact, each story, each new bit of information can be a hyperlink to another book, another idea, another gateway into the endlessly whimsical rabbit hole of the written word. Just like the web pages you visit most regularly, your physical bookmarks take you back to those book pages you want to return to again and again, to reabsorb and relive, finding new meaning on each visit — because the landscape of your life is different, new, “reloaded” by the very act of living.” ~ Maria Popova
“To three possessions thou shouldst look – acquire a field, a friend, a book.” ~ Hai Goan
“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle. … I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka
“With what admiration the reading of excellent poets fills anyone who attentively studies the invention and interpretation of concepts! And what shall I say of architecture? What of the art of navigation? But surpassing all stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time! Of talking with those who are in India; of speaking to those who are not yet born and will not be born for a thousand or ten thousand years; and with what facility, by the different arrangements of twenty characters upon a page! Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of mankind.” ~ Galileo
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