Reading Books Quotes

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke

~ Jen Campbell

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

~ Carla H. Krueger

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

~ Susanna Kearsley

I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver

~ Pat Williams

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.

~ Adriano Bulla

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

~ Cornelia Funke

You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he treasures.

~ Jamie Craig

We live to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Aric’s voice was hoarse by the time he ended the tale, but he didn’t want to go to sleep. There was something so wonderfully intimate about sitting with another person like this, sharing a story, the candlelight flickering in the darkness. It was as if the rest of the world disappeared as long as the storytelling continued.

~ Kim Fielding

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

~ Charles Frazier

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

~ Lily Koppel

Take some books and read, that’s an immense help, and books are always good company if you have the right sort.

~ Louisa May Alcott

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

~ William H. Gass

Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.

~ H.l. Stephens

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.

~ Jahangir Khosravi Shakib

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

~ Marcel Proust

Every reading is a misreading.

~ Phyllis Rose

I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.

~ Lyra Parish

One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

~ Rudyard Kipling

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.

~ Michel Houellebecq

There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.

~ Spencer Gordon

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

~ Orhan Pamuk

At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.

~ Anna Gavalda

I guess you can call me old fashioned. I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.

~ Felicia Johnson

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

~ Wendy Wax

I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. But I want you to know . . . I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. Robin Hobb, author

~ Robin Hobb

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

~ Michael Krüger

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

~ Seneca

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

~ Paul Kropp

You read a lot? Galina finally asked.Yes. It's an escape into another world. She tried to keep her words light instead of sad, thoughts of her family in her head. Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

~ Anne Mallory

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

~ Jules Renard 1890

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

~ Jacques Amyot

This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.

~ Laura Nowlin

Never judge a book by its movie.

~ J.w. Eagan