Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

215 Quotes

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

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

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

Emma Thompson

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

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

My arms are killing me. I didn't know words could be so heavy.

Markus Zusak

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

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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

Ezra Pound

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.

Mortimer J. Adler

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.

Nicole Christie

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

Oscar Wilde

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