645 quotes found
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
“Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
“Why do I read?I just can't help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I've never been exposed to.I read when I'm crabby, when I've just said m...”
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
“I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my b...”
“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for d...”
“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
“It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened ...”
“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”
“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.”
“Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping t...”
“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m dr...”
“Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.”
“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”
