Quotes About Reading

Hungary felt increasingly like reading War and Peace: new characters came up every five minutes, with their unusual names and distinctive locutions, and you had to pay attention to them for a time, even though you might never see them again for the whole rest of the book.

There are certain books that one remembers together with the material circumstances of reading: how long it took, the time of year, the color of the cover.

How comfortable it was to read about comfortable people!

A feminine textual body is recognized by the fact that it is always endless, without ending: there's no closure, it doesn't stop, and it's this that very often makes the feminine text difficult to read," wrote Hélène Cixous, in a sentence that could definitely have been shorter.

Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Books do furnish a room.

The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.

It doesn't do to read too much,' Widmerpool said. 'You get to look at life with a false perspective. By all means have some familiarity with the standard authors. I should never raise any objection to that. But it is no good clogging your mind with a lot of trash from modern novels.

What he also records is his delight in discovering that, if only adults left him alone, he could, through reading, escape into a world of his own.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Leemos porque, aunque leer no sea indispensable para vivir, la vida es más agradable, más clara, más rica para aquellos que leen que para aquellos que no lo hacen. En un sentido más simple todavía: vivir es más fácil para aquellos que saben leer, no solamente las noticias, las instrucciones de uso, las ordenanzas, los periódicos y las papeletas de voto, sino también los textos literarios.

There are people whom even childrens literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

A book that makes a person to look inside out through own soul is only worth reading, rests all are just crap even if any being adjudged the best-selling.

A person who has time to read a bulky book or novel has got certainly ample time to do something beneficial and novel.

He who lives with heart can only read through own head between the lines about the hidden message conveyed via headlines and top news.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

Go to hell, I'm reading!