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  Reading Quotes - I love books, by the way, way more than movies   “No two persons ever read the same book.” ― Edmund Wilson   “Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.” ― Sasha Alsberg a   “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” ― H. P. Lovecraft   “Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.” ― Jennifer Weiner   “Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.” ― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Vo...

  Reading Quotes - In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own   “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes   “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” ― Robertson Davies   “Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge   “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” ― Anne Herbert   “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” ― Virginia Woolf   “In books I ha...

  Reading Quotes - A book is a garden   “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda   “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality   “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ― Atwood H. Townsend   “Literature is news that stays news.” ― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading   “The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone w...

  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 Ve...

  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 i...