Quotes About Reading

It was a small'ish bookstore. Yet is not any bookstore large to a bibliophile's heart?

I love the smell of vintage words, the taste of authors' souls, the feel of books a thousand times read, the sight of worn spines in line on a shelf, the haunting sound and inked-mind silence of reading alone.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Tea is good while reading dusty books. Coffee pairs well with shiny things and the real world.

I prefer books that don't need batteries.

...we find what he says true, as far as we have experienced, and we can judge no further but by larger experience — for axioms in philosophy are not axioms till they have been proved upon our pulses. We read fine things, but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

It is better to have your nose in a book than in someone else's business.

Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.

I still read the books to-day, but never again shall I read them with that old glory of youthful passion when I harked to the call from over and beyond that whispered me on to win to the mystery at the back of life and behind the stars.

Lanciò un'occhiata all'amico che leggeva la lettera e vide i libri sul tavolo. Nei suoi occhi apparvero nostalgia e avidità, come l'avidità appare negli occhi dell'affamato alla vista del cibo.

The utmost accolade a writer can receive is that the reader is incognizant of his presence. The writer must put no obstacles in the reader's way. Therefore I try avoid words that he must puzzle over, or that he cannot gloss from context; and when I make up names, I shun the use of diacritical marks that he must sound out, thus halting the flow; and in general, I try to keep the sentences metrically pleasing, so that they do not obtrude upon the reader's mind.

I was a precocious child, and I resolved to read everything I could get my hands on, in order to encapsulate the whole of human knowledge. At the time the project seemed less impractical than it does today. I did as best I could and by the time I was ten or elven had read what I suspect was equivalent to a college education.

Dad reads great fat books too, but they're not modern, they're all classics - Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. If we have a look at Dad's book we wonder what the Dickens they're on about and they seem very Hardy, but Dad likes them.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

Preguntarme por qué no escribo inevitablemente desemboca en otra inquisición mucho más azorante: ¿por qué escribí? Al fin y al cabo, lo normal es leer

Smiling amiably, the San Angelo man said: "If you do have to explain it, why not use the old joke? Man asked a rancher in the Fort Stockton area: 'Caleb, your six boys are all good Democrats, I hope?' and Caleb said: 'Yep, all but Elmer. He learned to read.

I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living?

Because a boy who could read would sooner or later come upon some book that would give him an idea, and a boy with an idea could accomplish almost anything.

The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas. One of these ideas will be a home run.

You are the average of the 5 things you are reading today.

1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas.

P) The 5 × 5 RULE You're the average of the 5 people you spend time with. You're the average of the 5 thoughts you most have. You're the average of the 5 types of food you eat. You're the average of the 5 things you are most grateful for. You are the average of the 5 things you are reading today.

The 5 × 5 RULE You're the average of the 5 people you spend time with. You're the average of the 5 thoughts you most have. You're the average of the 5 types of food you eat. You're the average of the 5 things you are most grateful for. You are the average of the 5 things you are reading today.