Quotes About Reading

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

I read everything, both serious and funny. Dickens, Thackeray, Rider Haggard, PG Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe, and the endless wailing of Virginia Woolf, thin terrible books where nothing happened.

130. We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.

We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.

He is, he prides himself, adept at dissembling, at reading the thoughts of others, at guessing which way they will jump, what they will do next.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

C'est sidérant ! Comment fais-tu pour lire autant et rester aussi con ? - Hé hé ! C'est là tout mon génie !

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

Leggere è un vizio solitario e innocente

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive.

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united "for life and till death.

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

They spend most evenings at home gathered around the family hearth listening to Louis either singing, reading from Dom Guéranger's The Liturgical Year, or reciting "...from memory long passages [of poetry] principally from Lamartine and Victor Hugo.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

If you learn how to read the different operating systems and how they affect people's behavior, you will be much safer.

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. - Marc Maron, Attempting Normal

Every book is a self help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better...Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush.

The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.