Reading Quotes

Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.

~ Kate Morton

Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence.

~ Maurice Blanchot

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

~ Samuel Johnson

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate.

~ Neil Gaiman

Reading is a test, Its test like a water drop.Famine like you din't even saw it, but when you try to read a book its hard to take a startup but then as long as you read it you getting inside of it!

~ Shuhab

My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems.

~ Genesis Quihuis

Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.

~ Kathleen Tessaro

Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it.

~ Bob

But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas that have lasted thousands of years, or just since the most recent Harry Potter. I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because the just feel good in my hands, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.

~ Rick Bragg

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

~ Susan Reynolds

Rereading, we find a new book

~ Mason Cooley

Leave me alone,Do me a favor, abandon me,I want to think about,You me and the idea of forever.

~ Rohit Hora

Word porn is the best porn when the imagination is well endowed.

~ Dez Marie

Why are you crying?I was reading.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.

~ Marjane Satrapi

The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will often determine whether you love or hate the book.Both emotions lead to disappointment. If the ending was good, and the book was worth your time, then you are left annoyed and depressed because there is no more book to read. However, if the ending was bad, then it's too late to stop reading. You're left annoyed and depressed because you wasted so much time on a book with a bad ending.Therefore, reading is obviously worthless, and you should go spend your time on other, more valuable pursuits.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I'll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.

~ E.v. Fairfall

She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

~ Rick Yancey

A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise.

~ Sanober Khan

Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.

~ B.b. Free

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

~ Ben Casnocha

Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines...

~ Lauren Klarfeld

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become.

~ Paula Berinstein

One of the strongest motivations for rereading is purely selfish: it helps you remember what you used to be like. Open an old paperback, spangled with marginalia in a handwriting you outgrew long ago, and memories will jump out with as much vigor as if you’d opened your old diary. These book-memories, says Hazlitt, are “pegs and loops on which we can hang up, or from which we can take down, at pleasure, the wardrobe of a moral imagination, the relics of our best affections, the tokens and records of our happiest hours.” Or our unhappiest. Rereading forces you to spend time, at claustrophobically close range, with your earnest, anxious, pretentious, embarrassing former self, a person you thought you had left behind but who turns out to have been living inside you all along.

~ Anne Fadiman

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

~ Daniel D. Maurer

Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

~ Daniel D. Maurer

Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. “Martin, Martin, Martin,” she said, “the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg’s day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.

~ Dan Simmons

Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy with our own kind, so often obliterated in the multifarious controls and compulsions of actual social existence.

~ Germaine Greer

For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more

~ Brenda Kay Winters

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

~ Carson Mccullers

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

when you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, Charity.)

~ Charles Baxter

But I can understand now why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's okay to feel like this.

~ Cecelia Ahern

we became the books we read.

~ Matthew Kelly

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

~ Kat O'keeffe

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

~ Francine Prose