Books Quote by Logan Pearsall Smith

“Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is at least in my experience, the most healing…

— Harold Bloom

“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“To read is to humble yourself to learn and to love yourself to be entertained.”

— Miranda A. Uyeh

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

“How calm and quiet a delight It is alone To read, and meditate, and write.”

— Charles Cotton

“Read to a child today so they can discover the joy of reading.”

— Irene Menendez

“The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their…

— Alessandra Torre

“I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences [in my journal], than I do in reading much. Novels, even if…

— Abigail May Alcott

“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich