Book Reading Quotes

136 Book Reading quotes by 108 unique authors

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get my mind off… — Rio Ferdinand
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a… — David McCullough
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. — Kurt Vonnegut
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes… — Rick Moody
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge
I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get… — Celine Dion
There is no sin worse in life than being boring. — Paris Hilton
A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. — Alice Herz-Sommer
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my… — Isaac Asimov
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never… — Henry David Thoreau
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books. — Henry David Thoreau
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler… — Henry David Thoreau
He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born. — Henry David Thoreau
If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new… — Henry David Thoreau
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere… — Henry David Thoreau
The Library is a wilderness of books. — Henry David Thoreau
There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and… — Henry David Thoreau
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in… — James Patterson
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion,… — Charles Kingsley

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