Reading Books Quotes

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

~ Sarah Van Arsdale

We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Literature provides a person with a conceptual framework for recognizing human beings recurrent challenges in life. Reading good literature deepens a person’s understanding of the variable ways that somebody might respond to circumstances in their world, thereby adding to their own potential intellectual and spiritual depth and expands their understanding of the nuances of their own personal behavior.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Reading & Thinking Breeds limitless progress.

~ Auliq Ice

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate.

~ Neil Gaiman

The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will often determine whether you love or hate the book.Both emotions lead to disappointment. If the ending was good, and the book was worth your time, then you are left annoyed and depressed because there is no more book to read. However, if the ending was bad, then it's too late to stop reading. You're left annoyed and depressed because you wasted so much time on a book with a bad ending.Therefore, reading is obviously worthless, and you should go spend your time on other, more valuable pursuits.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.

~ B.b. Free

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

~ Lauren Klarfeld

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

~ Daniel D. Maurer

Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

~ Daniel D. Maurer

For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more

~ Brenda Kay Winters

Books are carnival rides for your imagination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull, find out where it takes you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

~ Lisa Bloom

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)

~ Carl Sagan

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.

~ Dan Groat

The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person’s own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality.

~ Unknown

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

~ Jonathan Harnisch

Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The world of books is my fantasy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of exceptionally promising writers. If there is poison in the words, you are poisoned; if there is nourishment, you are nourished; if there is beauty, you are made a little more beautiful. In Hebrew, the word dabar means both word and also deed. A word doesn’t merely say something, it does something. It brings something into being.

~ Frederick Buechner

Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

~ Aman Jassal

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.

~ Carew Papritz

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

~ Christine De Pizan

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

~ Amit Kalantri

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

~ Amit Kalantri

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

~ Amit Kalantri

I can lend you my money not my books.

~ Amit Kalantri