Reading Quotes

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

So many books, so little time.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to human beings because this is connected to thought.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

I read myself into a trance of perfect bliss.

Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

She'd rather be reading....

What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?

He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

People don’t read enough. And what reading we do is cursory, without absorbing the subtleties and nuances that lie deep within – Wow, you’ve stopped paying attention, haven’t you? People can’t even read a coffee cup without drifting off.

Sometimes we feel like we know more people than we actually do, because we know the characters in well-written books. I would argue that sometimes a character in a book is well-worth meeting.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

...eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Of course not all books are suitable for mealtime reading. It would be a kind of blasphemy to read poetry at table.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!