Quotes on “reading”

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.