Reading
Quotes - There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read
“Why
can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
―
David Baldacci, The Camel Club
“When
we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four
walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the
story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its
own.”
―
John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
“By
now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this
book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend
you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that
someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his
books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the
suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
“I
haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate
them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I
can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every
time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and
beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
―
Mark Twain
“So
Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all
those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the
sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not
alone.”
―
Roald Dahl, Matilda
“You’ve
read the books?”
“I’ve
seen the movies.”
Cath
rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on
the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
“I’m
not really a book person.”
“That
might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
“Books
don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“There
is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while
you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you
think the matter over.”
― E.
Nesbit, The Magic World
“Show
me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
―
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Take
a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.”
―
Thea Dorn
“A
good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“We
live and breathe words.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“Man
reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in
one's hand.”
―
Ezra Pound
“He
liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into
words inside his head.”
―
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“I
have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with
a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny,
exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific
advantage.”
―
Roald Dahl
“Read
the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Books
are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is
infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
―
Roberto Bolano
“Easy
reading is damn hard writing.”
―
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Reading
good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
―
Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“My
personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
―
Edith Sitwell
“A
library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your
virginity.”
―
Germaine Greer
“Peeing
is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
―
John Green, Paper Towns
“Let
others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather
boast about the ones I've read.”
―
Jorge Luis Borges
