Reading books Quotes · Page 10

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.”

— Shannon Celebi

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

— Joseph Morgan

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

— Eleanor Catton

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

— Michel de Montaigne

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think…

— Meg Tilly

I spent as much time watching telly and films when I was a kid as I did lying around reading books. I…

— Nick Hornby

“I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able…

— Haidy Santos

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are…

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing…

— Henry Giroux

“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy. Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They…

— G.K. Chesterton

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did…

— Stephen Dobyns

“She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I find most of my friends very pathetic, and that's why I rather keep meeting new people. They rather spend their time…

— Robin Sacredfire

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the…

— Killer Mike

“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft,…

— Norbert Leo Butz

“You're not going to see any former suitors in Forest Crest, are you?" An impish twinkle appeared in her eyes. "No, Mr.…

— Lisa Kleypas

“That Tolkien also included in Roverandom words such as paraphernalia, and phosphorescent, primordial, and rigmarole, is refreshing in these later days when…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one…

— David Amram

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

— Confucius

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many…

— Joseph Joubert

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

— Virginia Woolf

“you're never alone when you are reading books. Reading awake your mind,enlighten your life and enrich your knowledge.”

— Anonymous

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

' Reading books is the most glorious, pastime that human mankind has been blessed with!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

“If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.”

— Joyce Rachelle

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it…

— Zadie Smith

“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib

“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.”

— Fran Veal

“Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.”

— Marcel Proust