Books Reading Quotes

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

I even love the smell of books.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

great books are the ones we need

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Beware the man of a single book.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

A good title is the title of a successful book.