Reading Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who identified with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

~ Joseph Epstein

God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

~ Elizabeth George

I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to read well is a step toward loving God with your mind. It is a leap toward thinking God’s thoughts after Him.

~ James W. Sire

you may always find good books to read but the best and the ultimate book to read is the Holy Bible

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word.

~ Rachel Wojnarowski

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

~ Elizabeth George

Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.

~ R.a. Torrey

She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.

~ M.r. Graham

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

~ Junot Díaz

Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.

~ Jazz Feylynn

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

~ Django Wexler

Please please read. Everything and anything. You may not remember all of it, you may not remember any of it But from the fairytailes...to the sweeping soaring classics I hope you will one day discover for yourself, all those words--those lives and characters, ideas and ideals--will, without you realising, shape you and sometimes even shelter you. And it shall be as if you have lived a thousand lives.

~ Amy Mowafi

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

~ Jasper Fforde

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

~ Shannon Hale

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.

~ Donalyn Miller

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.

~ Shana Chartier

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

~ Donalyn Miller

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling

~ Jayden Hunter

There's nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

As I look around the quiet room, I see a thousand leather covers like doorways into worlds unknown.

~ Laura Whitcomb

Who needs sleep when you have a good book?

~ Elizabeth Ann Patterson

With a book, he was regardless of time.

~ Jane Austen

Even though everything today is available at a click of a mouse still, the smell of a book and its feel makes the experience of reading very special and personal. It is more tangible and I urge all youngsters to read a lot as it will also broaden their horizons.

~ Shallu Jindal

A book is an ocean,Its upon you,Whether you find pearls,Or only take a drop….!!!!

~ Aqeel Rafique

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.

~ Katy Lee

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.

~ Khadija Rupa

Indeed, there is something about reading in a restaurant that is borderline romantic. Leaning back in that corner booth, an evocative title in our hands, a stale cup of java in front of us, every so often bolting forward to jot a phrase onto the napkin, we look like, well, poets-unknown belletrists scraping through the hardscrabble years and awaiting the distinction that is imminent. the waiter of waitress refills our cup, we drop a memorable apothegm or two, share a laugh fraught with meaning, scope out the joint, and return to our tome. Nonbiblioholics strain to espy our title; conversation is struck up on things Kafkaesque and Kierkegaardian; and we forge a genuine biblioholic simpatico with all around.

~ Tom Raabe

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.

~ Nicholas Carr

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

~ Shannon Taylor Hodnett

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

~ Aman Jassal

There is no better adviser than a good book.

~ Debasish Mridha

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

~ Aman Jassal

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

~ Aman Jassal

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

~ Aman Jassal

A good book will surely become an event in your life.

~ Aman Jassal

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of books captured my heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be great, read great books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita