Reading Quotes

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.

~ Unknown

Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.

~ Didier Anzieu

His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.To Knight, it all felt impossible. His engagement with the written word might have been the closest he could come to genuine human encounters. The stretch of days between thieving raids allowed him to tumble into the pages, and if he felt transported he could float in bookworld, undisturbed, for as long as he pleased.

~ Michael Finkel

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

Reading doesn't put you to sleep... it makes you dream...

~ Nanette L. Avery

Imagine if you could dream about your books, read them in your dreams and learn them. You will never need to study in your life again. Just sleep.

~ Andreas Harpas

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

~ Doris Lessing

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

~ Susan Sontag

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

~ Jane Austen

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.

~ Alastair Reynolds

I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother.

~ Lemony Snicket

Lost race?” The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. “Why have I never heard of these ‘Rathiuel’?” “Because,” Azaroth rapped his knuckles on the Prince’s skull, “you do not care to read.

~ Leonard Mokos

There is nothing political about American literature.

~ Laura Bush

What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

~ Virginia Woolf

You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works.

~ Donald Mccaig

Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books.

~ Munia Khan

Without a clear-cut vision and a proper reading of the roadmap we may not reach the buoyant shores of the horizon. If we only keep looking into the middle distance, we might easily walk straight into the wall. (Change of Vision)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winter like a forced forsythia; I come in to come out. At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year’s planting.The woods are acres of sticks: I could walk to the Gulf of Mexico in a straight line. When the leaves fall, the striptease is over; things stand mute and revealed. Everywhere skies extend, vistas deepen, walls become windows, doors open.

~ Annie Dillard

The Bible is a book that every Christian should read, listen to, or have read to him or her throughout his or her lifetime; however, in the event that God has gifted a person with the characteristic for the utter joy that envelopes some during times of, what they would describe as, “pleasure reading” (an often times rare characteristic), it is only acceptable that he or she (particularly) reads His Holy Word at least once during his or her lifetime. At least, that’s what I think.

~ Becky Watson

Renewal of mind begins with mediation on the word of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

~ Jay Kristoff

A good reading strengthens the soul.

~ Toba Beta

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

~ Ruskin Bond

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

~ Walter Mosely

A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader.

~ A.d. Posey

Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.

~ A.d. Posey

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Reading books is like wearing winter clothes, it covers and warms up the body of your naked soul.

~ Munia Khan

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

~ Harry Truman

Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.

~ Aakash Singal

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

~ Pawan Mishra

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

~ Kamand Kojouri