Quotes About Reading

Agatha Swanburne once said, "To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions")—

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions")—why,

Drum lest mit Maß, doch lest genug, Dann wird's euch wohl ergehen. Bloß Bücher fressen macht nicht klug. Man muss sie auch verstehen.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Leggere ci dà un posto dove andare anche quando dobbiamo rimanere dove siamo.

No company like good books, especially the book of God.

I like books that fit in pockets, which can lead to love, give, turn a corner, give, buy back preferred to read the passages. For me it is an important event to exchange a book you want, and give your shoes.

Books are companions; choose your companions wisely.

But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.

I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

find a good book. And sit down and read it. There will be times in your life when you'll feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. I want you to remember that. The more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.

Silence is pain. But it is a pain with an exit route. When we can't speak, we can write. When we can't write, we can read. When we can't read, we can listen. Words are seeds. Language is a way back to life. And it is sometimes the most vital comfort we have.

Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Greene. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are Escape Routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

Where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything. But so, increasingly, were books. I read and read and read with an intensity I'd never really known before. I mean, I'd always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.