Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

215 Quotes

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

David Levithan

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

David Mitchell

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

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

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

G.K. Chesterton

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

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

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

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Diane Duane

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

Helen Exley

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

Diane Setterfield

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Jacqueline Kelly

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

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

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