Book Quote by Wilkie Collins

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air…

— Wilkie Collins

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story…

— Paul Kropp

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are…

— Victor Null

“Never stop dreaming or reading.”

— A.B. Shepherd

“The wife slept on, only roused by the cry of her child now and then, which seemed to have power over her, when far…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

— Jessamyn West

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.…

— Sallust

“Her Shadowblade Prime was fully roused now, power rolling away from her in uncontrollable waves. Her Blades wouldn't be able to ignore it. She…

— Diana Pharaoh Francis

“The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.”

— Anonymous

The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.

— Dal LaMagna