Quotes on “reading”

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading.It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.

For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all the secrets locked inside.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

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.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.