Reading
Quotes - Reading one book is like eating one potato chip
“No.
I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
“Books
are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the
journey. They are home.”
―
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“If
you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
―
John Waters
“We
live for books.”
―
Umberto Eco
“I
read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
―
Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
“A
classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
―
Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
“Reading
one book is like eating one potato chip.”
―
Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
“A
good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always
be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
―
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“Reading
is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality
after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone
else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
―
Nora Ephron
“Finally,
from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went
completely out of his mind.”
―
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“The
best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
―
George Orwell, 1984
“The
world was hers for the reading.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Literature
is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
―
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“Isn't
it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo
had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you
read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the
book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger
self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed
flower...both strange and familiar.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
“Today
a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
―
Margaret Fuller
“I
think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the
book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we
reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would
be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy
are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that
affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we
loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone,
like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my
belief.”
―
Franz Kafka
“Sometimes,
you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you
become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together
unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like
An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and
rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“People
say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
―
Logan Pearsall Smith
“The
best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a
feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and
particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have
never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out
and taken yours.”
―
Alan Bennett, The History Boys
“Reading
furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes
what we read ours.”
―
John Locke
