“Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It doesn't what people think about the book you are reading. Just read the book that you love to read or want… — Roshell Jayasekara Copy Share Image
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
![“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just…” quote by Tim O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abb/tim-o-brien-1818_book_well-right-now-i-m-not-dead-but-when-i-a_911144.png)
