Quotes About Reading

As a child, she'd been a great reader, finding the ultimate escape within the pages of a story. She learned that opening a book was like opening a set of double doors—the next step would take her inside to Neverland or Nod, Sunnybrook Farm or Mulberry Street.

she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.

loved coming here. It always felt so…safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if they did, it was done gently and with respect. I always wished the rest of the world would be run like a library.

Based on the reading she'd done about rape trauma, Margie knew she wasn't crazy, but suffering from PTSD.

he'd formed the idea that she was a solitary sort, not one to seek company when a good book lay at hand.

She was in the middle of reading The Book Thief about a girl in Nazi Germany surviving something horrific.

I feel like I should clean the house, so I a going to read until the feeling passes.

She read voraciously, devouring a dog-eared copy of The Handmaid's Tale it one sleepless night.

I read books, …Like, all the time.

I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more

She joined a book group and actually read each selection, remembering that at several places in her life, books have been her refuge.

She loved reading books. While her mom was busy making sandwiches, she would curl up in a corner and read to keep herself company.

Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading.... From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits. The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable. Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved?

I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk

A matter of habit, didn't Mr. Sanger think? After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I'd never seen anybody in a library pick up a small literary journal.

Reading Is To The Mind What Exercis Is To The Body .

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.