Reading Books Quotes - Page 2

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

Theodore Roosevelt

A book lives a new life every time it is read.

Brandon Sanderson

If your best friends do not read books, they read you.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes when Rose was reading, she would catch a whiff of the musty smell of her book. She put her nose down in the fold and inhaled deeply so that wonderful smell, the smell of adventure in faraway lands, would fill her up. She rubbed her hand across the pages to feel the velvety surface of the paper. When she closed her eyes, her fingertips could even feel the words that were printed there, each letter raised just a little, almost like the special language that her blind aunt Mary could read.To Rose, a book was as real and alive as if it breathed and walked and spoke.

Roger Lea MacBride

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

Carla H. Krueger

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Carla H. Krueger

Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.

Reese Witherspoon

The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the page are merely the means to that end, a think-by-numbers set, a bottled daydream. The book, therefore, is only finished when someone reads it. - Sidelines

Lois McMaster Bujold

Robert Pattinson reads all of the time and he refers so many great books.

Kellan Lutz

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Bangambiki Habyarimana

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.

Erri De Luca

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

Chloe Thurlow

What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.

David Nicholls

when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

Ron Brackin

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

Fakeer Ishavardas

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.

Karen Glass

If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God's kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.

Matthew Henry

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

Carla H. Krueger

Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore

Joe Caulfield I think

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!

Mehmet Murat ildan

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke

Jen Campbell

Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure.

Chloe Thurlow

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

Benito Pérez Galdós

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

Django Wexler

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.

Kevin Focke

There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.

Bernard Jan

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Daniel Pennac

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

Kim Lehman

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

Will Schwalbe

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

Leo Tolstoy

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Roger Lea MacBride

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

Carla H. Krueger

A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

Richard Flanagan

When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Ann Radcliffe

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

John Locke

This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it will reveal another layer, previously overlooked themes, images, and meanings. For within every great book there are several others.

Ryszard Kapuściński

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

Carla H. Krueger

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Erri De Luca

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

Nanette L. Avery

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.

Doris Lessing

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

Neil Gaiman

I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to. It had been startling and disappointing for me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass.

Eudora Welty

The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the time and keeps reminding about how to act and react towards things and occurrences’ in life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Gutenberg (hesitantly): Perhaps the book, like God, is an idea some men will cling to. The revolution of print pursued a natural course. Like a river, print flowed to its readers, and the cheapness of the means permitted it, where the channel was narrow, to trickle. This electronic flood you describe has no banks; it massively delivers but what to whom? There is something intrinsically small about its content, compared to the genius of its working. And--if I may point out a technical problem--its product never achieves autonomy from its means of delivery. A book can lie unread for a century, and all it needs to come to life is to be scanned by a literate brain.

John Updike

The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house.

Sui Ishida

Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?

Lea Davey

...reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts

René Descartes

The Need to Read"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life’s questions, big and small.

Will Schwalbe

Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek.

Kilroy J. Oldster

I highly recommend re-reading good personal development books. Rarely can we read a book once and internalized all of the value from that book. Achieving mastery in any area requires repetition—being exposed to certain ideas, strategies, or techniques over and over again, until they become ingrained in your subconscious mind.

Hal Elrod

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

Pittacus Lore

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

Alan Bennett

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

Naomi Wood

There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.

Mayra Mejia

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

H.G.Wells

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