Read Quotes

The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.

~ Betty Smith

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

~ Alberto Manguel

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

~ Tara Bray Smith

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

~ James D. Sass

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

~ Patty Wiseman

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

~ Scott Westerfeld

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

~ Craig Ferguson

No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.

~ Jennifer Loren

If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!

~ Md. Ziaul Haque

You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The Holy Bible is sacred book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn't nearly so important; it comes in its own time. I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

~ Eudora Welty

The Holy Bible is the best of all books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.

~ Heather Demetrios

Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to ‘cleaning’ as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings – and anyway, she didn’t need to know her mark’s entire pedigree or life’s story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read – on those rare occasions – her books were always dog-eared from the back.

~ Christina Engela

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.

~ Steven Magee

If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.

~ L.t. Hill

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Study in direction of your field and find maximum amount of information about it , read all possible information concerning it

~ Sunday Adelaja

If we read, we shall renew our mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How can you be bored? There are so many books to read!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Devote yourself to reading, learning and writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I read books, it is like I have met the sacred souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

~ Jenim Dibie

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people about things that matter. If you have an idea in your head talk it to people as a normal conversation, to get their natural opinions. And don’t forget to jot down discreetly any new ideas you get from people. God may use other people to convey messages to you, that may add more information to the ideas you already have.

~ Enock Maregesi

Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don’t read because there are no interesting writers.

~ Enock Maregesi

A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.

~ Sanhita Baruah

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.

~ Munia Khan

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri