Reading Books Quotes

? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about the work. Being it good or bad. A book might as well be hurt by a bad, poorly written review. That’s such a pity. Some people don’t know how to express themselves, and maybe that’s why they are just readers and not writers, others read a book like chewing a cupcake. That’s too bad. If that was not your cup of tea, leave it there, untouched. Don’t go bash the author for that. But if you really hate the book, why bother telling others. It’s your problem after all. You can give constructive opinions but don’t blame the author for your different tastes and views. Also authors shouldn’t comment on reviews, it sounds unprofessional, even silly. Some busy writers don’t even have time to read what other people say about their work. If someone enjoyed your book, or not, that is irrelevant. If you will continue or not to write something else it doesn´t add to the plate.. Besides, why bother commenting on a review, just read it and shut up. Being it good or bad. So my opinions about authors commenting on reviews is just my opinions after all!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

~ Jayden Hunter

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone.

~ Shannon Celebi

Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.

~ Shannon Celebi

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower court. The feeling by means of which the author has separated out the materials of his work, during reading separates out again the unformed and the formed aspects of the book—and if the reader were to work through the book according to his own idea, a second reader would refine it still more, with the result that, since the mass that had been worked through would constantly be poured into fresh vessels, the mass would finally become an essential component—a part of the active spirit.Through impartial rereading of his book the author can refine his book himself. With strangers the particular character is usually lost, because the talent of fully entering into another person’s idea is so rare. Often even in the author himself. It is not a sign of superior education and greater powers to justifiably find fault with a book. When receiving new impressions, greater sharpness of mind is quite natural.

~ Novalis

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

~ Spencer Gordon

An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Read different to think differently, world is already into rat race.

~ Aman Jassal

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938

~ Francis Beauchesne Thornton

I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.

~ Louise Walters

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

~ Amit Kalantri

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

~ Amit Kalantri

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

~ Amit Kalantri

How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!

~ Carmela Dutra

Daily Bible reading, path of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

~ Django Wexler

Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

~ Stephen Chbosky

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.

~ Carmela Dutra

At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

~ Shannon Taylor Hodnett

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

~ Aman Jassal

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

~ Aman Jassal

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

~ Aman Jassal

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books captured my heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be great, read great books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

~ Aman Jassal

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

~ Manoj Arora

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

~ Chris Geiger

On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber