Quotes About Reading

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.

Home is where your books are.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

I like home. It's warm and there are books.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

Reading gave me hope.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.