Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

215 Quotes

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Al Pacino

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Alberto Manguel

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Aldous Huxley

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Criss Jami

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

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

David Mitchell

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Anne Fadiman

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

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

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

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

David Baldacci

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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