About Books Quotes
The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.
And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.
A good book...leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell
You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.
All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.
People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting
You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.
To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
Every reading is a misreading.
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.
She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.
The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.
Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?
Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life.
We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.
The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.
Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.
Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.
