Quotes About Reading

Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves, Dressed in dim brown, and black, and white, and green And every kind of colour. Which will you read? Come on; O do read something; they're so wise. I tell you all the wisdom of the world Is waiting for you on those shelves; and yet You sit and gnaw your nails, and let your pipe out, And listen to the silence.

I didn't want to die – not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

If reading really does increase empathy, as we are constantly being told that it does, it appears that writing takes some away.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Most people take the way words look for granted ... Words are there to be read – end of story. Once however typomania sets in, it becomes quite a different story.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

If you want to know the people around you," Stalin said, "find out what they read.

He did not possess literary talents himself but in terms of his reading alone, he was an intellectual, despite being the son of a cobbler and a washerwoman.

I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

The only way to gain wisdom, is through loving books.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel,. he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.

I had read my way not to knowledge but into an inscrutable oblivion.

We bring our life stories, our prejudices, our grudges, our expectations, and our limitations with us to books….Openness to a book is vital, and openness is simply a willingness to be changed by what we read. This is not as easy as it sounds. Many people read to solidify their own views.

Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.