Reading Quotes

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

~ Mildred Aldrich

So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

~ Henry Dumas

You have the capacity to do the work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is one of the greatest gifts given to humankind.

~ John Patrick Hickey

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

~ John Patrick Hickey

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts. -Bob Proctor

~ Bob Proctor

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.

~ Mark Matteson

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

~ C.s. Lewis

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

~ Beaongjoco

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

~ Johnny Rich

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something.

~ Jonathan Friesen

No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

~ Ray Bradbury

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

~ Gary Shteyngart

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

~ Anne Lamott

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

I figured out that I'm better off not explaining how and why I do the things that I do. If people can only read the surface of what you are, and that's all they want to see, let them see just what they need to see. Everything more is just something to keep and share only with the people that desire and are ready to receive that information. Words wasted on ears that do not listen and eyes that do not see are just seeds thrown on rocky ground. Prepare your ground first and then ask for the seeds.

~ Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

~ David Lodge

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

~ Will Advise

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

~ Alasdair Gray

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

~ Teacher David Mccullough

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

~ Terri Windling

They'll get my Kindle when they pry it from my cold dead hands, if my corpse will release it.

~ Elizabeth Horton-Newton

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.

~ Katherine Rundell

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

~ Jane Austen

Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.

~ Susan Coolidge

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.

~ Hiroko Sakai

Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams.....their demons

~ Eliza Granville

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking, 'How did you get my ideas, which I didn’t know I had until you put words to them?' We are known, appreciated, even cherished by our favorite writers; every word of our favorite books seems to have been written for us. Within their sentences and paragraphs, those writers are forever available, forever patient, including us in their compassionate recognition of the impossible, exhausting complexity of being human (those “many thousand” selves), never ignoring us or abandoning us or finding us dull. It’s you, they whisper, as we turn their pages, you are the one I’ve been waiting to tell everything to.

~ Suzanne Berne

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read, the living ones can use the money.

~ Thomas C. Foster

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

~ Ashwin Sanghi

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

~ Jenim Dibie

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

~ Lori Lesko

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

~ Nikita Dudani