Quotes About Reading

Tolstoy's prose keeps pace with our pulses, his characters seem to move with the same swing as the people passing under our window while we sit reading his book.

Martin was one of those people for whom a good book before sleep is something to look forward to all day. Such a person, upon happening to recall, amidst routine occupations, that on his bedside table a book is waiting for him, in perfect safety, feels a surge of inexpressible happiness.

Zij verslindt boeken, jaar in jaar uit zonder ooit toe te staan dat een boek haar verslindt. Zij leest niet om de dingen beter te begrijpen, maar om ze op afstand te houden. Een boek, dat is een haardscherm tussen haar en de rest van de wereld.

As for reading books, even far-out books, even beatnik books, fine. Only there are not enough books for me down South, which is one reason I came to New York.

She trailed her fingers along the book spines as she wandered around the room. "My father thinks reading is a waste of time." Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.

Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

Hawkeye: I brought a book over. Roberts: What book? Hawkeye: The dictionary. I figure it's got all the other books in it.

Social media is a time-suck. Read a friggin' book once in a while.

And isn't that the only reason to read, W. says: to experience your limits anew? To experience your idiocy?

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

I turned to books for comfort.

I Read, I Smoke, I Admire.

Su dedo índice recorrió los lomos de los libros, desgastados por el uso y por el tiempo. Eligió uno de sus favoritos y se lo llevó hasta la mecedora. Una vez allí se puso los anteojos y bien acomodada frente al fuego, con una taza de chocolate caliente y el libro abierto sobre su regazo, lo abrió por una página al azar y se dispuso a dejarse llevar por la magia de las palabras.

a menudo encontraba párrafos enteros que no tenían ningún sentido para ella.

Libri faciunt labia, maese Zacarius, libri faciunt labia. Lo cual, en lengua vulgar, significa que 'la lectura perfecciona la elocuencia'.

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libros viejos y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras.

Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do." "That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

Lately she'd been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes. Pat Conroy—

Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people's company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.