Quotes About Reading

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

If people read poetry, they would be happier.

Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere ho la certezza di essere ancora felice":

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.