Reading Quotes

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn’t think to stop it?

~ Geoffrey Wood

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

~ Christopher Paolini

A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.

~ Aman Jassal

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

~ Tessa Dare

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

~ Sarah Jio

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

~ Manoj Arora

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

~ Salman Rushdie

A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

~ Wilkie Collins

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

~ Larry Smith

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

~ Amit Kalantri

A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To lead by example is to offer your life as a living diarry for others to read. Never make your life pages blank, make some marks there. Many people are reading you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you don't write, then read.

~ Sylvia L'namira

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

~ Lorii Myers

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

~ Chris Geiger

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.'He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?''Every single time.

~ Elizabeth Hunter

Monk worked on his remaining Intertect cases at his dining table while I tried to hone my detecting instincts by reading the Murder, She Wrote novel he bought in Mill Valley.I can't say that I learned much about investigative procedure but I discovered that you should stay far away from Cabot Cove. That tiny New England village is deadlier than Beirut, South Central Los Angeles, and the darkest back alley in Juarez combined. Even though every killer eventually gets caught by Jessica Fletcher, I still wouldn't feel safe there. I'm surprised the old biddy walks around town unarmed.

~ Lee Goldberg

My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

~ Nicholaa Spencer

Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

~ Max Barry

Stories can start revolutions.

~ Katherine Rundell

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

~ Katherine Rundell

I love books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She strolled between shelves, looking at titles, smiling as she met old friends - books she had read three times or five times or a dozen. Just a title, or an author's name, would be enough to summon up happy images. Strange creatures like phoenixes and psammeads, moving under smokey London daylight of a hundred years before, in company with groups of bemused children; starships and new worlds and the limitless vistas of interstellar night, outer space challenged but never conquered; princesses in silver and golden dresses, princes and heroes carrying swords like sharpened lines of light, monsters rising out of weedy tarns, wild creatures that talked and tricked one another...

~ Diane Duane

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

~ Johnny Rich

On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across every inch of exposed wall. They rise up to the ceiling, warriors of an impenetrable army, encircling my over-sized armchair and keeping me safe as they whisper their stories softly in my ear.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

These are just stories, you know. They are part of what we are, but they are not the real thing. All this year I’ve been thinking, What would White Raven do? And today, every time I thought it, I just didn’t care what White Raven would do. So today I’ve just done what I would do. I’ve just done what I think is right. I’m not going to stop making up stories. But I’m thinking now that they aren’t just for pretending to be someone else, someone more exciting, someone braver than you really are. They are not always jut a maze to get lost in so you can run away from life. They can just as well be maps to help you navigate.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.

~ Alexia Casale

We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else's shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we're with you every step of the way. We read about people in impossible situations because we're dealing with horrible things ourselves, in our lives. And you going through your story helps us with ours, no matter how yours ends.

~ James Riley

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

~ James Avery Fuchs

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

~ John Connolly

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there'd been no lock – and lose herself in books.

~ Dianna Hardy

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

~ Cornelia Funke

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will be a river and have the Salmon literal and metaphoric leaping inside it and be called History of the Rain, so that his book does not perish, and you will know my book exists because of him and because of his books and his aspiration to leap up, to rise. You will know that I found him in his books, in the covers his hands held, the pages they turned, in the paper and the print, but also in the worlds those books contained, where now I have been and you have been too. You will know the story goes from the past to the present and into the future, and like a river flows.

~ Niall Williams

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

~ Mizuki Nomura

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

~ Sara Sheridan

There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...

~ Lindsay Eland

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

~ Simon Van Booy