Quotes About Reading

Turner was a lousy fighter, an inept swordsman, and most of the people he tried to kill didn't die by his hand. His sole strength was his superior brain. He became a leader of men because he had developed his mind by reading, which happened to be illegal. Coincidence?

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

From 1909 to 1914, Lovecraft turned from adolescent to adult; but his life during this period is an almost utter blank. Apparently he sat at home, day after day, staying up most of the night and in bed all morning, reading voraciously, writing reams of Georgian poetry, and doing little else.

And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful.

I'm a librarian," he said.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.

He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called a jackass.

Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication, the ink faded now and barely legible, though Clary could make out the signature: With hope at last, William Herondale.

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

There is no better distraction in this world than losing oneself in books for awhile.

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.

Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will's voice as he read.

Zara: It's just a registry... Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea?

And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.