Quotes and sayings about tag  #reading

Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

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Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

David Baldacci

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

David Levithan

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

David Mitchell

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

David Mitchell

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

David Quammen

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

David Sedaris

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Dean Koontz

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

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

Diane Setterfield

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.

Dorothy Parker

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...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dylan Thomas

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

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.

Eckhart Tolle

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

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.

Elif Shafak

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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.

Elizabeth C. Bunce

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.

Elizabeth Hardwick

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.

Emily Dickinson

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

Emma Thompson

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

Erika Johansen

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

Eudora Welty

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.

Eugene Field

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.

Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Flannery O'Connor

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Frank Serafini

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