Reading Quotes

...human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.

~ Mette Hjort

...the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

~ Mette Hjort

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down Desolation Row. I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

~ Patti Smith

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

~ George R.r. Martin

We read to know we're not alone.

~ William Nicholson

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

~ Dr. Seuss

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

~ Harper Lee

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

~ Ray Bradbury

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

~ Voltaire

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

~ Lemony Snicket

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

~ Margaret Fuller

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

~ Saul Bellow

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

~ Fernando Pessoa

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

~ Oscar Wilde

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

~ Christian Bauman

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

~ Jasper Fforde

You’ve read the books?”“I’ve seen the movies.”Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”“I’m not really a book person.”“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

~ Rainbow Rowell

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

~ John Green

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

~ Terry Pratchett

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written, I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

~ Atwood H. Townsend

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

~ Edith Sitwell

Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.Thank you. I said primly. Then, I considered. Can vipers be rabid?I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this.

~ Richelle Mead

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

~ Henry David Thoreau

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

~ Germaine Greer

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

~ Aphra Behn

Why do I read?I just can't help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I've never been exposed to.I read when I'm crabby, when I've just said monumentally dumb things to the people I love.I read for strength to help me when I feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.I read when I'm angry at the whole world.I read when everything is going right.I read to find hope.I read because I'm made up not just of skin and bones, of sights, feelings, and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm also made up of words.Words describe my thoughts and what's hidden in my heart.Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over.Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them.Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.A book is a friend.You can never have too many.

~ Gary Paulsen

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.

~ R.l. Stine

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

~ Maya Angelou

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

~ Nora Ephron

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

~ Virginia Woolf

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.”“Does it have any sports in it?”“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”“Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

~ William Goldman

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

~ Emilie Buchwald

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

~ Virginia Woolf

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

~ Clive Barker