Book reading Quotes

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been…

— Nicholas Carr

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

— Leo Rosten

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the…

— Mary Butts

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made…

— Maria Edgeworth

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

— Karl Kraus

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are…

— Samuel Johnson

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a…

— George Orwell

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the…

— Roger Angell

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

— Clive Thompson

I don't take drugs, I take books.

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.”

— Michael Krüger

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the…

— David Pogue

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

— Charles William Eliot

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson