Book reading Quotes

I grew up kissing books and bread.

— Salman Rushdie

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

— Charles Dickens

There is no sin worse in life than being boring.

— Paris Hilton

Never judge a book without reading it first:P

— Mario Calderon

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

“I can lend you my money not my books.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Pages entertain me more than pictures do.”

— Amit Kalantri

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

— Pablo Neruda

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

— John Berger

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

— Jodi Picoult

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

— Gail Carson Levine

“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”

— V.C. Andrews

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

— William Shakespeare

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

— Walt Whitman

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be…

— Patricia Schroeder

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

— Richard de Bury

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they…

— Amit Kalantri

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives…

— Richard Bach

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of…

— James Carroll

Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are…

— Charles McGrath

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But…

— Samuel Johnson

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon…

— Fay Weldon

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago…

— Heidi Montag

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out…

— 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

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I…

— Laura Nowlin

“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things…

— Erin Blakemore

“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I…

— Italo Calvino

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book…

— Po Bronson

Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new…

— Tom Peters

“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it…

— Nick Hornby (Author

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't…

— Franz Kafka