Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

215 Quotes

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

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