Reading
Quotes - Reading brings us unknown friends
“If
you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he
rereads.”
―
Francois Mauriac
“Reading
brings us unknown friends”
―
Honore de Balzac
“Have
you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska
laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read
them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve
gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I
always have something to read.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“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. Movies show you the pink
house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of
the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front.
My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in
point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that
part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”
―
Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
“[D]on't
ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out
from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't
apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from
bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that
people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the
book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people.
The most important thing is that people read...”
―
Neil Gaiman
“I
kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
―
Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
“Once
you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
―
Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
“You
should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the
creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading
is the finest teacher of how to write.”
―
Annie Proulx
“Books
are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
―
Stephen Fry
“What
a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the
dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
―
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Only
a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
―
Steven Spielberg
“A
short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick
kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
―
Stephen King, Skeleton Crew
“Reading
is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your
ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like
looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
―
Roberto Bolaño, 2666
“My
alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life
reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
―
Malcolm X
“The
worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
―
Joseph Joubert
“One
glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead
for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
―
Carl Sagan
“We
read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and
think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we
ourselves are and may become.”
―
Ursula K. LeGuin
“To
acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost
all the miseries of life.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham, Books and You
“Everything
in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
―
Stéphane Mallarmé
“For
some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a
miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds
world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or
excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They
show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
―
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
“We
are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating,
far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
―
Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Some
of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary
Mantel, Wolf Hall
