Quotes About Reading

No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

you cannot open a book without learning something

Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. I don't need anything to read, I said. I'll just sit here and eavesdrop along with you. I thought you might sit on the mag, he said. It's extremely difficult to get soot out of chintz.

Since I spend my working days studying trends, many of which are downright disgusting, I feel it's my duty after work to encourage the trends I'd like to see catch on, like signaling before you change lanes, and chocolate cheesecake. And reading. Also

Ludzie mówiÄ…, ?e ksi??ki sÄ… azylem od tego Å›wiata, i majÄ… racjÄ™.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

I know certain days of your childhood. All but weeping with loneliness. Coming upon a certain book in the library and clutching it to you. Carrying it home. Some perfect place to read it. Under a tree perhaps. Beside a stream. Flawed youths of course. To prefer a world of paper. Rejects.

What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks? asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them, said Meggie.

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company.

Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

If you take a book with you on a journey,' Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, 'an odd thing happens: the book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.

Manche Bücher müssen gekostet werden, manche verschlingt man, nur einige wenige kaut man und verdaut sie ganz.

Ich bin ein Bücherfresser

Das Buch wird anfangen, deine Erinnerungen zu sammeln. Du wirst es spaeter nur aufschlagen muessen und schon wirst du wieder dort sein, wo du zuerst darin gelesen hast. An nichts haften Erinnerungen so gut wie an bedruckten Seiten.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. But

Nichts verscheuchte böse Träume schneller als das Rascheln von bedrucktem Papier.

Mortimer! Orpheus produced a derisive smile, although with some difficulty. Is your head buried so deep in your wine jug that you don't know what's going on in this world of yours? He's not doing any reading now. The bookbinder prefers to play the outlaw these days - the role you created especially for him.