Reading
Quotes - If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book
“What
an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with
flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one
glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead
for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and
silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of
human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens
of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that
humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos,
Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“A
peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
―
Walter Mosley, The Long Fall
“I
owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
―
Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book
“Sections
in the bookstore
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Books You Haven't Read
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Books You Needn't Read
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Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
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Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books
Read Before Being Written
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Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But
Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
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Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
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Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
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Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
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Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
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Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
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Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
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Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
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Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
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Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
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Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
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Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
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Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
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Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
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Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and
Really Read Them”
―
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“It's
not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others
- even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be
reading a book.”
―
Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in
Books
“Reading
was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading
to read.”
―
Christian Bauman
“After
all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than
writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the
sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their
face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the
writer - perhaps more.”
―
Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
“Doctor
Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the
world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from
Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
―
Russell T. Davies
“Reading
a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you
read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it
in your own terms.”
―
Angela Carter
“Books
to the ceiling,
Books
to the sky,
My
pile of books is a mile high.
How
I love them! How I need them!
I'll
have a long beard by the time I read them.”
―
Arnold Lobel
“No
matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are
chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
―
Lemony Snicket
“From
that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely
again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and
there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There
was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when
she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone
she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she
made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“A
book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still
called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance
at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for
thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and
silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of
human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who
never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans
can work magic.”
―
Carl Sagan
“That's
what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that
tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you
onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight,
and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
―
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“If
you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
―
J.K Rowling
