Reading Quotes

A beautiful face like yours should be smiling. Why don't you smile?I do smile. When something beautiful happens in a book, I can't help but smile.

~ Polkadot

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

~ John Green

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

~ Lemony Snicket

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

~ Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

~ Oscar Wilde

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

~ Mark Twain

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

~ John Green

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

~ Jane Austen

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

~ Oscar Wilde

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

~ Charles William Eliot

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

~ William Styron

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

~ C.s. Lewis

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

~ Francis Bacon

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

~ Pat Conroy

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

~ Jane Smiley

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

~ Joseph Brodsky

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

~ Paul Auster

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

~ Tahereh Mafi

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

~ C.s. Lewis

We live for books.

~ Umberto Eco

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

~ Anna Quindlen

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

~ Diane Duane

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

~ John Waters

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal

~ John Green

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

~ Italo Calvino

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? Mo had said...As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

~ Cornelia Funke

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

~ Christopher Paolini

The world was hers for the reading.

~ Betty Smith

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

~ Alan Bennett

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

~ Annie Dillard

A good book is an event in my life.

~ Stendhal

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

~ François Mauriac

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

~ George Orwell

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

~ C.s. Lewis

Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.

~ John Green

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

~ Roberto Bolaño