Quotes About Reading

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.

Lily opened the door. "Maude, would you—" She cut herself off. Maude was nowhere in sight, but Caliban was across the room, holding a page of her play to the light of the fire. His eyes were intent, his brow slightly creased—and he was quite obviously reading the page.

Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read

you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

I flipped through the rest of the pages—when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

As you read, keep in mind that no author will parallel your beliefs 100 percent, so you must learn to take from each one the ideas that work best for your family.

I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...

Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.

It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation. It would have been exactly the same to them if I had read through all twenty-six volumes of Elsie Dinsmore. (The White Azalea)

She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.

so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree.

Give me a book. There is no present I care about but that.

Her family held strongly that for daughters to read in the daytime was to be idle. Well, if it was, thought Ingeborg lifting her head, that head that drooped so apologetically at home, with the defiance that distance encourages, then being idle was a blessed thing and the sooner one got away to where one could be it, uninterruptedly, the better.

And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.

All I want is to read quietly the books that I at present prefer.

Of Brother John he knew no particular evil, but the redness of his hair, the exuberance of his health and high spirits, the very way he put live blood back into old martyrdoms with his extravagant gusto in the reading, were all offensive in themselves, and jarred on the prior's aesthetic sensibilities.

and seriously considered whether a man was really better for reading anything at all, let alone these labyrinthine works of theology that served only to make the clear and bright seem muddied and dim, by clothing everything they touched in words obscure and shapeless as mist, far out of the comprehension of ordinary men, of whom the greater part of the human creation is composed.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

Illiterate and a nervous stammerer, she is nevertheless as resourceful and intuitive as the world was before it learned to read.

The last barometer reading of the day was 28.96, the lowest since the disastrous blizzard in July.