Book reading Quotes · Page 8

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

— Heinrich Heine

The Library is a wilderness of books.

— Henry David Thoreau

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his…

— Elif Batuman

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

— Paris Hilton

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get…

— Rio Ferdinand

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

— J. K. Rowling

“My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick.”

— Peter O'Toole

“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things…

— Amit Kalantri

I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't…

— Celine Dion

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

— Doris Lessing

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

— Franz Kafka

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first…

— Rick Moody

“If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.…

— Henry David Thoreau

O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy…

— Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

Today I'd like to sit and read Forget I have a job I need Ignore the things I have to do And…

— Andrew Guzaldo

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

— Rob Brezsny

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

— Jewel

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have…

— Moliere

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

— Neil Gaiman

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

— Joe Strummer

The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R. R. Martin

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche