Quotes About Reading

I have just read La Dame aux Camelias by Dumas. It is very good. Do you know it?

Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,'Somewhere in England')

When you're bereaved you're so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.

This book is for Randall Jarrell, the man who believed we are devoted to the act of making literature because it leads to the act of reading.

Come quasi tutti i lettori, a volte ho la sensazione di essere nata leggendo".

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Read a minimum of four good books a year, a monthly magazine like The Reader's Digest, and your daily morning and evening newspapers.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

and that he delighted in Flaubert and Pater, read Homer in the original and not as a schoolmaster reads him for the grammar.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.