645 quotes found
“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...”
“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
“Reading... a vacation for the mind....”
“We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.”
“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest...”
“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.”
“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content ...”
“Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.”
“I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is to know in one si...”
“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.”
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”
“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
“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.”
“And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate w...”
“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...”
