Book reading Quotes · Page 5

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

— Joe Strummer

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

— Cardinal Richelieu

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

— Leo Rosten

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

— Alice James

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

— Rob Brezsny

“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?”

— Django Wexler

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

— Confucius

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back…

— Cornelia Funke

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for…

— Shirley Ballas

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic…

— Holbrook Jackson

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Moliere

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which…

— Margaret Fuller

I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play…

— Edgar Wright

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to…

— Jean Rhys

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to…

— Sherman Alexie

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they…

— Charles Kingsley

“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

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

— Charles Lamb

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

— Mason Cooley

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

— Seth Godin

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

— Harry Golden

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

— Clive Thompson

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Anonymous

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

— Roald Dahl

“The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

— Franz Kafka

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

— Elias Canetti

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— Anonymous

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

— Karl Kraus

You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous