Reading Books Quotes

There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.

~ Mayra Mejia

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

~ H.g. Wells

Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.

~ Diana Jane Heath

The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics.

~ Henry Kissinger

I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

~ Kiera Cass

Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

~ Django Wexler

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.

~ Kevin Focke

It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.

~ Bernard Jan

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

~ Daniel Pennac

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

~ Kim Lehman

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

~ Will Schwalbe

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

~ Leo Tolstoy

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

~ Roger Lea Macbride

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

~ Carla H. Krueger

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

~ Ann Radcliffe

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

~ John Locke

This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it will reveal another layer, previously overlooked themes, images, and meanings. For within every great book there are several others.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

~ Carla H. Krueger

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

~ Erri De Luca

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

~ Nanette L. Avery

If your best friends do not read books, they read you.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes when Rose was reading, she would catch a whiff of the musty smell of her book. She put her nose down in the fold and inhaled deeply so that wonderful smell, the smell of adventure in faraway lands, would fill her up. She rubbed her hand across the pages to feel the velvety surface of the paper. When she closed her eyes, her fingertips could even feel the words that were printed there, each letter raised just a little, almost like the special language that her blind aunt Mary could read.To Rose, a book was as real and alive as if it breathed and walked and spoke.

~ Roger Lea Macbride

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

~ Carla H. Krueger

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

~ Carla H. Krueger

The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the page are merely the means to that end, a think-by-numbers set, a bottled daydream. The book, therefore, is only finished when someone reads it. - Sidelines

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.

~ Erri De Luca

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

~ Chloe Thurlow

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

~ David Nicholls

when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

~ Ron Brackin

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.

~ Karen Glass

If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God's kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.

~ Matthew Henry

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

~ Joe Caulfield I Think