Reading Quotes

I like to share my thoughts after watching/reading or listening to something... after all you could get with amazing thoughts.

~ Deyth Banger

So you’re a reader,” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

~ Denis Markell

I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be read sitting halfway up the stairs, where the light through a stained-glass landing window fell on it, staining the pages red and blue and green.

~ Rosemary Sutcliff

Reading is for pleasure, it’s not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it.

~ Heather Reyes

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

~ Anne Sexton

Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

She just wanted - had always wanted - a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job. Getting the books - now, that was what *really* mattered to her.

~ Genevieve Cogman

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

~ John Green

I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

~ Haruki Murakami

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.

~ Eknath Easwaran

I was a reader before I was a writer, and when I started putting together my first collection of short stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, I drew on my rich history as a reader to try and create my voice. I wanted this voice to reflect my Somali background, my Kenyan upbringing and my London home. This voice would be a mashup of all the elements that formed my youth; the sticky-sweet Jamaican patois, the Kenyan street slang, my Somali and Italian linguistic tics, my love of jazz poetics and nineties hip-hop slanguistics. This language would form the bed on which my narratives of love, loss, identity and hope would rest.

~ Diriye Osman

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me

~ Lidija Dimkovska

In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a river

~ Virginia Woolf

In conversation we are sustained by the wisdom of those who have gone before us. We are also empowered to discern how we will face the challenges of both the present and the future. Reading is essential to this conversational way of life, as we often cannot literally converse with our forbears or with those who are following similar vocations in other places. We read as a way of listening to the wisdom of others. The conversation continues as we reply to this wisdom both internally and externally. Internally, we reply as we grapple to make sense of this wisdom in our own context. Externally, we reply to our reading as we discuss it with our church or work community.

~ C. Christopher Smith

Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves?

~ Michal Coret

Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding.

~ Roshan Sharma

We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human — what Lesser means by “grandeur and intimacy” — and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified.

~ William Giraldi

I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction.

~ Flannery O'connor

...'To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.'– Ecclesiastes 12:12

~ Jehovah

I had begun reading the book on the plane just after take-off. And I realised that something does happen to you when you read fiction above ground: The intensity of each word and phrase is magnified and the world which the writer has created for you takes on a greater dimension than before. After a while, you can't tell fiction from fact.

~ Phan Ming Yen

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

~ Régis Debray

I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

~ Anna Gavalda

At the age of 46 I was starting to see the appearance of rainbow halos and starbursts around bright nighttime lights, problems reading small print, focusing issues with my eyes, and image recognition issues. I had been exposed to bright high powered 20 watt scattered sodium LASER light a decade earlier in very high altitude astronomy.

~ Steven Magee

We were not meant to read stories anymore. We were too busy writing our own.

~ Maria Elena

To tidy up takes time, and she wants all her time for wolfing books...

~ Stella Gibbons

She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.

~ Stella Gibbons

She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past while the business men in the carriage talked about news in the papers— awful, as usual— their golf, their gardeners, and the detective stories they were reading.

~ Stella Gibbons

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

~ Elif Shafak

If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.

~ Rebecca Solnit

But one day he said to me:‘I’ve got it now. It’s reading isn’t it?’‘I’m sorry?’‘You read a lot, don’t you? That’s where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.’The next time I saw him he had a Herman Hesse novel in his hands. I never saw him again without a book somewhere on his person. When I heard, some years later, that he had got into Cambridge I thought to myself, I know how that happened. He decided one day to read.

~ Stephen Fry

...the act of remembering is imagined as a real act, that is, as a physical act: as walking...the means of retrieving the stored information was walking through the rooms like a visitor in a museum...to walk the same route again can mean to think the same thoughts again, as though thoughts and ideas were indeed fixed objects in a landscape one need only know how to travel through. In this way, walking is reading, even when both the walking and reading are imaginary, and the landscape of the memory becomes a text as stable as that to be found in the garden, the labyrinth, or the stations.

~ Rebecca Solnit

This is what is behind the special relationship between tale and travel, and, perhaps, the reason why narrative writing is so closely bound up with walking. To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain that the author as guide - a guide one may not always agree with our trust, but who can at least be counted upon to take one somewhere. I have have often wished that my sentences could be written out as a single line running into distances so that it would be clear that a sentence is likewise a road and reading is traveling.

~ Rebecca Solnit

A library — a place full of books! Imagine! Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read!

~ Gemma Jackson

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

~ Michael Dirda

Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?I know it can.(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

~ Dorothy Allison (Author)

Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

~ Ben Lerner

And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps.

~ Colleen Oakley

Books are not distractions. Rather, they are, and have been, the most profound and accurate mirrors man has ever crafted.

~ Rj Arkhipov

All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it.

~ Brittainy C. Cherry