Quotes About Reading

Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd of numbers having a square dance. I would rather have reread her book [To Kill a Mockingbird] than Stain'd-by-the-Sea's confusing train schedule, but just barely.

And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil" -Quigley Quagmire

There are some librarians so trustworthy and so interesting that you know any book they recommend will be worth your time

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive—the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do"—to read long, dull, and difficult books.

Never trust anybody who has not brought a book with them.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Böcker ska blänka som solar och gnistra som tomtebloss. Medan vi läser böckerna läser böckerna oss. Kan böckerna läsa människor? Det kan de förstås! Hur skulle de annars veta allting om oss?

Republicans are always criticizing President Obama for using the teleprompter. Is that a big deal? After eight years of George Bush, I'm glad we have a president that can read.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

What happens this time, a hospital visit? Whoah! said Cyrus. See, now you must be reading my mind, because that's exactly why!

In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over . . . my spine an oversized question mark.

The only light was a standing lamp by his chair, near his elbow was a drink. He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

Nunca he llegado a tener afinidad ni a sentirme realmente cómodo con personas que no leen o que nunca han leído. Para mí es un requisito esencial. De lo contrario echo en falta algo, amplitud de miras, noción de la historia, una sintonía compartida. Los libros son contraseñas.

Her reading left Keller increasingly disappointed by the way that biographers had deified Shakespeare

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

I'm just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I'd carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn't lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We'd come so close, do you see, that I wouldn't be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

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There are days when books are the only bread for those who hunger

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.